To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

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.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

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 your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.