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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
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
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
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 think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life 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
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
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People

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