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.
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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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 know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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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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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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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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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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