#own

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#because #commitment #energy #experience #invest

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#alone #back #conversations #emotionally #family

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#experience #family #homes #kept #line

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! ↗

— John Irving

#files #forget #hides #keeps #memory

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. ↗

— John Irving

#begin #connections #first #i #important

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#chinese #chinese food #day #down #eat

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #came #down #history #many

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#greatness #mansion #measure #must #up

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#had #landowners #male #only #right

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#defined #end #end of the day #our #predicament