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- In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with…
- As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
- Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
- If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place…
- 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…
- Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class…
- The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
- The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and…
- Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.
- Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will…
- The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in…
- The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be…
- None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and…
- 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…
- It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound…
- If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining,…
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
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- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle