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- The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else…
- Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that…
- Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
- My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted…
- Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves…
- I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a…
- I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them…
- This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss.…
- Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
- If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Feelings are the one of the most important cause behind the weakness or strength of a person. Be strong utilise them as… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare