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They say we are disturbing the peace, but there is NO PEACE. What really bothers them is that we are DISTUBRING THE WAR. -Howard Zinn

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I want to celebrate my limits. I want to be honest about them. I want to build my life around them instead of trying to overcome them. -Britchida

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If you're controlling women to "protect" them from men's violence, instead of calling out men for perpetrating that violence--then you aren't protecting women. You're protecting patriarchy.

--Farida D.

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I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me...the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art. --Anais Nin

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Recover loudly, to keep others from dying quietly. --Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

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I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. --Georgia O'Keefe

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Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together--communicate. Don't count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It's the other way around: first develop intimacy skilled. Then make love to enjoy them.

--Margot Anand

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Of all things, men do not like to feel that they are guilty of wrong, and if you make them feel guilt, they will try desperately to justify it on any grounds, and seeing no immediate solution...they will kill that which in them, the condemning sense of guilt.

--Richard Wright

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It is not your responsibility to alleviate anyone else's guilt. As Audre Lorde said, guilt is "the beginning of knowledge." Do not spare them the mirror. Let them learn.

--Cole Arthur Riley

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Friend, do not enter this dance floor if you do not want to do this sacred dance. Everyone here is losing their minds so they can remember their souls. and the only music playing is Love.

--Jaiya Johh, Fragrance After the Rain

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It's all art. The way you laugh. Your smile. Your wardrobe. The way you decorate your home. The way you dance. Your energy. Your collection of books. The way you write. Your playlists. Your grocery lists. Your friendships. It's all art. Your whole life is art.

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Having someone express care for or attraction toward us can be enormously triggering when we've been conditioned to believe we're not worthy of positive attention--or that "positive" attention is just a setup to take advantage of us. Easy does it. Slow things down inside.

--Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

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When someone says, "after all I've done for you..." they are revealing that what they did for you was not for you at all, but for their own need to control you. Their generosity was just a contract with hidden terms of compliance. Breach that contract, and you become the problem. --Wade Mullen

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"You and your partner are not only having a dance, a dance is having you. Both." — Steve Paxton, 1939-2024

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The boundary you fear setting the most marks the border between freedom and bondage. --Cole Arthur Riley

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"You and your partner are not only having a dance, a dance is having you. Both." — Steve Paxton, 1939-2024

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Coming home to the body/becoming home within the body is nonlinear. We are past/present/future all at once and all together. We are of the earth; our bones are made of minerals and stardust; we share breath with the trees and every growing green thing. The body holds stories that can help us come back to the ground, to ground as a verb, to get a little softer, a little quieter, so we might remember how to listen to what the body is always whispering to us: We are always held. We are never alone.