I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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