When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
Bell HooksWithin a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.
Bell HooksIf any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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