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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Civil Rights Country Justice Love Movement Social
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful

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