Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.

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, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

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.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.