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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Care Combination Commitment Knowledge Love Respect Responsiblity Trust
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love 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
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
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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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
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
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
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

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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