To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKSGenuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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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.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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 be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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