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When we see love as the will to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth, revealed through acts of care, respect, knowing, and assuming respons...more

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Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and ...more

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When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

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When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the genero...more

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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.

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Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow th...more

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Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will ...more

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Living simply makes loving simple.

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True love is a different story. When it happens, individuals usually feel in touch with each other's core identity. Embarking on such a relationship i...more

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The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word 'love' lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of...more

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Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The sou...more

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Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radica...more

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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that lov...more

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Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious thought to make it conform to and legitimize a conser...more

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Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in...more