Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
BELL HOOKSIf we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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