What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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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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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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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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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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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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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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