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#1. All awakening to love is spiritual awakening

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#2. As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Gloria Steinem

#3. The choice to love is a choice to connect
to find ourselves in the other.

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#4. When men lie to women, presenting a false self, the terrible price they pay to maintain "power over" us is the loss of their capacity to give and receive love.

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#5. Spirituality and spiritual life gives us the strength to love.

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#6. Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again.

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#7. Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part, however. The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead to return to the re-light district.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#8. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption.

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#9. Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

Gloria Steinem

#10. To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.

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#11. True forgiveness requires that we understand the negative actions of another.

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#12. Discipline and devotion are necessary to the practice of love, all the more so when relationships are just beginning.

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#13. The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Gloria Steinem

#14. Erotic attention often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love.

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#15. At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.

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#16. Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.

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#17. Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.

Maya Angelou

#18. Everyone has a home but me.

Gloria Steinem

#19. To bring a love ethic to every dimension of our lives, our society would need to embrace change.

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#20. Love allows us to confront these negative realities in a manner that is life-affirming and life enhancing.

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#21. If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning.

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#22. To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love.

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#23. Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others.

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#24. Embracing love ethic means that we utilize all dimensions of love
"care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge"
in our everyday lives.

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#25. In truth, true love is all about work.

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#26. It is no accident that greater cultural acceptance of lying in this society coincided with women gaining greater social equality.

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#27. Refusal to stand up for what you believe in weakens individual morality and ethics as well as those of the culture.

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#28. If we succeed without confronting and changing shaking foundation of low self-esteem rooted in contempt of hatred, we will falter along the way.

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#29. I learned then that it is more fulfilling to live one's life within a circle of love, interacting with loved ones to whole we are committed.

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#30. A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.

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#31. Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste
and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

Gloria Steinem

#32. While the will to love is present in very young children, they still need guidance in the ways of love.

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#33. From the moment little boys are taught they should not cry or express hurt, feelings of loneliness, or pain, that they must be tough, they are learning how to mask true feelings. In worst-case scenarios they are learning how to not feel anything ever.

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#34. The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.

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