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For five or ten years they worked together, growing stronger and wiser and more and more mutually attached, and then the miracle happened—one of these young women bore a child.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
Her investment of her time and energy in, and even the leveraging of her white privilege toward, the common good is what I call relational reparations.
Kelley Nikondeha • Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us about Freedom
Albina’s Secret From Arthur: Albina Quevedo, my mother-in-law, whom I loved like my own mother, lay in her bed in the small Barcelona apartment she had occupied for the past seventy years. The bedroom’s austere decor had never changed: a picture on one wall of her native Canary Islands; a simple crucifix on another. This was what she saw nearly
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Ai-jen Poo — This Is Our (Caring) Revolution | The On Being Project
onbeing.orgLet’s agree to abandon forever the idea that the depiction of family life is the province of women artists, and therefore insubstantial. Let’s refuse to hear a sneer in the term domestic.
Helen Garner • The Children's Bach: A Novel
The currency of relationship can manifest itself as money down the road, because Paulie and Ed do have to pay the bills. Free berries might translate to better pumpkin sales, because people will want to come back to a place they have a relationship with. “People feel like they got something more than they paid for,” she explained. “They learned
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