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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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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
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Class Dominate Feminism Race Realize Women
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
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
No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Black Enough Indeed Women Writing
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Act Ego Learning Past
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Art Belief Elegance Environment Grace Live Reflection
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
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
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World

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