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- Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with…
- Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
- When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
- As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
- The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny…
- Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and…
- Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
- No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the…
- I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
- I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive…
- 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…
- To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to…
- 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…
- ..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the…
- Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined…
- Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture,…
- They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other…
- 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.…
- 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…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour