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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
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
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
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
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
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
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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
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
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
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 people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
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

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

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