Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
BELL HOOKSThe practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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