21 quotes
American author and activist (1952–2021)
“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."
on Love
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
"A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving... There can be no love without justice."
on Freedom
"When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat"
on Fear
"True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it."
on Activism
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance"."
on Courage
"When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It's not what you do but how you do it."
"When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us."
"Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope."
on Hope
"Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed"
on Life
"I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find."
"Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power."
on Philosophy
"When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape."
on Self Awareness
"The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love."
"Addiction makes love impossible."
"Any society based on domination supports and condones violence."
"I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that."
on Happiness
"Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself"
"Living simply makes loving simple."
"feminism is for everybody"
