Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

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

... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.