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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
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
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
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
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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Commitment Love Possible
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage

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