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To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.
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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 loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
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All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
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Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
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I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.
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One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.
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Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.
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We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
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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 in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.
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Without justice there can be no love.
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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.
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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 and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.
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We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
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The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.
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Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
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Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.
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The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
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Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance
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Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.
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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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