Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alie….

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 ….

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to….

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 an….

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most op….

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell i….

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club ….

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust..

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love..

I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional ima….

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance..

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, incl….

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us fr….

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do….

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on on….

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun..

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men.….

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth..

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created..

Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and….

While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs o….