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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
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
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Art Belief Elegance Environment Grace Live Reflection
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
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
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
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

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