Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous, " unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

It's never too late to create!

Feedback control is certainly not controlled feedback.

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.