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What we resist persists.
Sonia Johnson / Writer
Persist
Persistence
Persists
Resist
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The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
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Men
Crisis
Harder
Mid Life Crisis
Hits
Mid-Life
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What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
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Failure
Fear
Heart
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Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
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Civil Disobedience
Disobedience
Rights
Risk
Civil
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people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.
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People
Strong
Suffering
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I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
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Asks
Backgrounds
Orthodox
Background
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Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.
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Asks
Permission
Persons
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All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
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Revolution
Spirit
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Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.
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Assuming
People
Problem
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It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."
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Diversity
Justice
Social Justice
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In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.
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Home
Firsts
Human Beings
Thinking
Mormons
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Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.
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Quality
Determine
Language
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I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.
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Salt
Salt Lake City
Lake
Mormon
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Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
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Important
Risk
Thinking
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I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.
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Feelings
People
World
Good World People
Few People
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It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
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Audacious
Scary
Trying
Willing
Willing To Try
Hold
Onto
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Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
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Inspirational
Honesty
Integrity
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Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.
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Brain
Feelings
Thinking
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We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
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Change
Success
History
Determination
Determined
Remember
Significant
Person
Change History People
Make
Course
Difference
Group
Small
Must
Small Group
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So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.
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Blow
Ignorance
Real
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A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
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Beats
Glad
Strong
Trouble
Beat
Strengthen
Troubles
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I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Equal
Equal Rights
Opposing
Uneasy
Amendment
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The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.
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Guiding Principles
Mean
Taught
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Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.
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Men
Believe
Order
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How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
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Inspirational
Falling In Love
Wish
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The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.
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Religion
Men
Religious
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I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.
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Mean
Names
Roots
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We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.
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Feelings
Knowing
Waiting
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As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.
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Sad
Normalcy
Normality
Pilots
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We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.
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Adjusting
Earth
Littles
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One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.
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Men
Race
Radical Feminism
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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.
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Eras
Feminism
People
Precarious
Breaks
Dangerous Thing
Ordeal
Proves
Tickled
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In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.
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Men
Order
Thinking
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One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so.
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Countries Of The World
Country
Sunday
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The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.
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Air
Land
Religious
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I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.
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Time
Admitting
Reason
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There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a war that not only continues to this moment without the slightest abatement but intensifies hourly.
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Men
War
Long
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