The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about ….

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment..

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, ….

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes ….

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only..

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies ….

Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when ….

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppres….

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth..

Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of t….

Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't mat….

We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We ….

To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings..

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 do….

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..

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

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being..

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice o….

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and sp….

If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you foc….