Human relationship Quote by Adrienne Rich

““An honorable human relationship--that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"--is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.””

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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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“Human relationships are binary: they are complete and fully loving when both people are authentic or they are not at all.”

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