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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
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
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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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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

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

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