I don’t respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it’s my “place” to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

Rachel Held Evans
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Black women are often met with challenges when it comes to being mothers. For some, this may be due to the ways in which they are raised by their mothers. But, for others it is because they are raised with the idea that they are not entitled to respect. I have heard many times from black women about how they are constantly told by their husbands that they don’t deserve respect and that they don’t deserve to be treated respectfully. This is an incorrect belief and one that we should all work to break down.

Source: A Year Of Biblical Womanhood

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