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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
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
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
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
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination 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

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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