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Whether we are behaving in a manner unexpected or unappreciated for our presenting gender, or we simply identify as a gender that is unaccepted by others in our community, there are many situations in which each one of us is treated negatively because of our gender. Understanding the unwritten gender rules of our communities and why they are harmful is the first step in confronting them within ourselves and with each other.

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FindCenterWomen who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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Timothy Leary
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FindCenterMasses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

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bell hooks
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FindCenterVisionary 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 soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys.

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bell hooks
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FindCenterWhat’s worse, we have applauded it all—the militarism, the profiteering, and the sexisms—in the name of patriotism, capitalism, and even religion. We consider it a social problem, not a spiritual one.

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Joan Chittister
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FindCenterSexual insecurity may be the primary reason men have sought physical, political, financial, intellectual, and religious advantage over women.

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Mantak Chia
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FindCenterThe symbolic evidence of women’s invisibility in the human race is most clear perhaps in her suppression, her camouflage, her negation even in language.

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Joan Chittister
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FindCenterFeminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself.

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Joan Chittister
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FindCenterWomen learn in such a system that, though they are usually tolerated in life and often loved, they are seldom respected for themselves, for their opinions, for their talents, for their perspectives. The life of a woman shrivels under the weight of an unnatural deference and lost development.

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Joan Chittister
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FindCenter. . . putting a gender on a being limits in some way the way we think about the being. By putting any kind of label on anything, we limit it.

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Dolores Cannon
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