Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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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 will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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