When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
Hopefulness empowers us to continue our work for justice even as the forces of injustice may gain greater power for a time.
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
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 o
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.
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.
