Quotes About Engagement

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Unfortunately it is often easier to ignore, dismiss, reject, and even hurt one another rather than engage in constructive confrontation.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community

To know compassion fully is to engage in a process of forgiveness and recognition that enables us to release all the baggage we carry that serves as a barrier to healing.

Imagine a mass-based feminist movement where folks go door to door passing out literature, taking the time (as do religious groups) to explain to people what feminism is all about.

A commitment to a spiritual life requires us to do more than read a good book or go on a restful retreat. It requires conscious practice, a willingness to unite the way we think with the way we act.

Attention is an important resource.

And partially it was exciting because of the eagerness on the part of students of all ethnicities to engage in what Foucault has called, the insurrection of subjugated knowledges. To teach a course on Black women writers and have hundreds of the students signing up, that let's you know that there has been a transformation in the academy.

When we begin to experience the sacred in our everyday lives we bring to mundane tasks a quality of concentration and engagement that lifts the spirit.

Estar al margen es ser parte del todo, pero fuera del cuerpo principal.

Yes, it's true. Few intellectuals fuse intellectual power with deep moral concern and political engagement. Edward Said is somebody that comes to mind, but for every Edward Said there are one hundred and fifty academicians who, albeit interesting and competent, are narrow. So it follows that for every bell hooks there are one hundred and fifty academics threatened by your poly-vocality.

Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.

Society may not need you, strictly speaking, but some sort of use can usually be found.

La società può anche non avere bisogno di te, in senso stretto, ma di solito un modo di utilizzarti lo trova.

the gentle Kathryn thumps the engagement ring in his face, thumps it as you'd thump a spider

It must never be forgotten that a stockholder is an owner of the business and an employer of its officers. He is entitled not only to ask legitimate questions but also to have them answered, unless there is some persuasive reason to the contrary.

Romane sind dazu da, verschlungen zu werden. Sie lesen ist eine Wollust der Einverleibung.

A hush fell over the room as the man in black stepped up to the podium.

More than once she'd felt as though they were talking at each other rather than to each other.

The Immortals were about to engage the Impregnable. The unbeaten would fight the unbeatable.

He was watching my eyes. A man who uses a sword with lethal skill always matches his opponent's eyes.

The standing to be cannonaded,' he wrote in the memoirs of his military service: and having nothing else to do, is about the most unpleasant thing that can happen to soldiers in an engagement.

we fight them where we choose or where we must, not always when we want.