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- Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and…
- Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually -…
- I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and…
- The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.
- To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions…
- This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to…
- Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
- For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part…
- As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses…
- Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that…
- as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master…
- Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.
- Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that…
- Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.…
- One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..
- While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not…
- We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us…
- Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
- …“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
- None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless…
- Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to.…
- A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment.…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster