Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
BELL HOOKSAs long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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The 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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