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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.
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A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.
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In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
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