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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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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
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space
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
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
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
Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong

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