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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 think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.
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A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.
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Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
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One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.
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In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.
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Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.
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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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My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
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...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.
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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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Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
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... we need to interrogate reverence, for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
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Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.
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Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.
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Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.
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