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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.

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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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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
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
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
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
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Art Belief Elegance Environment Grace Live Reflection
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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

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