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- Masses of lesbians were not "into" politics, were conservative, and had no desire to do anything radical.
  - The lesbians and bisexual women who helped form the women's liberation vanguard were led to feminism because they were already engaged in left politics, pushing against fixed boundaries of class, race, and sexuality.

- Sexist thinking taught to females from birth on had made it clear that the domain of sexual desire and sexual pleasure was always and only male, that only a female of little or no virtue would lay claim to sexual need or sexual hunger.
- We still live among generations of women who have never known sexual pleasure, women for whom sex has only ever meant loss, threat, danger, annihilation.

https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a14418770/tough-love-with-bell-hooks/

- 練習靜心冥想 - 我們會更體恤自己；改善跟朋友、家庭和社區的關係；過著與周遭環境更為息息相關的生活；即使在面臨挑戰時，還是能持續關心自己真正關心的事情，保持自己的行動與價值觀一致。
- 靜心練習是一種不斷地迎接我們經驗的過程，不管那是什麼樣的經驗，我們都給予它正念、慈愛和悲憫。幫助我們明白世事無常。

- Feminist focus on children was a central component of contemporary radical feminist movement.
- One of the primary difficulties feminist thinkers faced when confronting sexism within families was that more often than not female parents were the transmitters of sexist thinking.

- Individual heterosexual women came to the feminist movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on racial justice.
- As the movement progressed, as feminist thinking advanced, enlightened feminist activists saw that men were not the problem, that the problem was patriarchy, sexism, and male domination.

- Awareness of domestic violence as well as the changes that must happen in our thinking and action if we are to see its end.
- Initially feminist focus on domestic violence highlighted male violence against women, but as the movement progressed evidence showed that there was also domestic violence present in same-sex relations, that women in relationships with women were and are oftentimes the victims of abuse, that children were also of adult patriarchal violence enacted by women and men.

- 慈愛靜心練習是要帶著興趣和關心來注意我們和別人。
  - 先關注自己，然後是一個我們熟識的人，再來是一個不怎麼熟悉的人。

- Nonwhites are absent/invisible is because they are not white. All white women in this nation know that whiteness is a privileged category.
  - The fact that white females may choose to repress or deny this knowledge does not mean they are ignorant: it means that they are in denial.

- 越南禪師、詩人一行禪師 : 「我喜歡將正念定義為能夠幫助我們百分之百活在當下的能量；妳/你凝神活過每個瞬間的能量。」
- 十一歲的男孩 : 「正念是不去摑另一個人巴掌。」

- The emphasis on work as the key to women's leberation led many white feminist activists to suggest women who worked were 'already liberated'. They were in effect saying to the majority of working women, 'Feminist movement is not for you'.
  - Working for low wages did not liberate poor and working-class women from male domination.

- Individual female freedom fighters all over the world have single-handedly struggled against patriarchy and male domination.
- In white supremacist capitalist patriarchal Western culture neocolonial thinking sets the tone for many cultural practices.

別總是嚴厲的批判自己
- 正念 : 注意當下萌生的想法和念頭，但卻故意不加以評斷。

- Many of working women, who put in long hours for low wages while still doing all the work in the domestic household would have seen the right to stay home as "freedom".
  - Only privileged women had the luxury to imagine working outside the home would actually provide them with an income which would enable them to be economically self-sufficient.

- 專注是指穩定而專一的聚集注意力，放掉讓我們分心的事情。當我們的注意力以這種方式穩定下來之後，能量才會回到我們的生活中，我們也才會感到自己的生活重上軌道。
  - 分心來自內在 : 錯誤和懊悔；執著過往的不公平。專注於無法改變的事實；將自己的能量虛擲在一個根本不可能發生的未來上面。

- Before women's liberation all females young and old were socialized by sexist thinking to believe that our value rested solely on appearance and whether or not we were perceived to be good looking, especially by men.
  - Understanding that females could never be liberated if we did not develop healthy self-esteem and self-love feminist thinkers went directly to the heart of the matter - critically examining how we feel and think about our bodies and offering constructive strategies for change.

- The sexual exploitation of women's bodies had been a common occurrence in radical movements for social justice whether socialist, civil rights, etc.
- Before there could be any gender equity around the issue of free love (which usually meant having as much sex as one wanted with whomever one desired) women needed access to safe, effective contraceptives and abortions.

- In its earliest inception feminist theory had as its primary goal explaining to women and men how sexist thinking worked and how we could challenge and change it.
- In those days most of us had been socialized by parents and society to accept sexist thinking. We had not taken time to figure our the roots of our perceptions. Feminist thinking and feminist theory urged us to do that.

- The foundation rested on our critique of what we then called "the enemy within", referring to our internalized sexism. We all knew firsthand that we had been socialized as females by patriarchal thinking to see ourselves as inferior to men, to see ourselves as always and only in competition with one another for patriarchal approval, to look upon each other with jealousy, fear, and hatred.
- Sexist thinking made us judge each other without compassion and punish one another harshly.

- Feminists are made, not born. Like all political positions one becomes a believer in feminist politics through choice and action.
- Males benefited from sexism more than females and were as a consequence less likely to want to surrender patriarchal privilege.