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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
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
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World
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
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
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
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence

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