All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKSI think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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