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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
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
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
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
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
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
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
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
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
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner

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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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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