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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

by bell hooks

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Feb 28, 2026 12:40AM

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From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i

by Haunani-Kay Trask

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“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“If you ask the Universe to be your partner and guide you on the path to wholeness, it will oblige.”
― Debbie Ford, Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life

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“I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.”
― Amanda Lindhout, A House in the Sky

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“Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.”
― Debbie Ford, Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life

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“Any difficult conversation, any tough issue I have sitting in the pit of my stomach, any unsaid confessions, any itchy little resentment and unpleasant business? I can talk about it. I want to talk about it. Because no matter how hard a conversation is, I know that on the other side of that difficult conversation lies peace. Knowledge. An answer is delivered. Character is revealed. Truces are formed. Misunderstandings are resolved. Freedom lies across the field of the difficult conversation. And the more difficult”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

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