I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
BELL HOOKSThe political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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