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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
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
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
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
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
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
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
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
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 people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People

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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