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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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Each Other Love Meaning Relationship
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
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
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
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
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
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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