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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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
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
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
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
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
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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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
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

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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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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