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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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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
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
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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
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
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
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
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
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
Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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Feeling Interactive Love Process
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
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

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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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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