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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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Commitment Love Possible
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
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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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner

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