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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".

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The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of...more

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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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Significantly, in future feminist movement we will spend less time critiquing patriarchal marriage bonds and expend more effort showing alternatives, ...more

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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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White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them ...more

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Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotional work in relationships. And most men, even thos...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 idea of "common oppression" was a false and corrupt platform disguising and mystifying the true nature of women's varied and complex social realit...more

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In retrospect, it is evident that highlighting abortion rather than reproductive rights as a whole reflected the class biases of the women who were at...more