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The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

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When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.
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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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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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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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I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
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there is no politically neutral art.
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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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