Life Quote by Rebecca Walker

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.” quote by Rebecca Walker — Download Open image

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”

Rebecca Walker

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Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a…

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“You are my first love.” And then, “You will be my only love.”

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“I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatterable calm, a placid surface;…

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“Blood strikes back.”

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One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

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My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.

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Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

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