To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
BELL HOOKSWhen we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
-
-
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
BELL HOOKS -
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.
BELL HOOKS -
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKS -
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
BELL HOOKS -
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
BELL HOOKS -
Feminism is for everybody.
BELL HOOKS -
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
BELL HOOKS -
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
BELL HOOKS -
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
BELL HOOKS -
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
BELL HOOKS -
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKS -
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
BELL HOOKS -
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKS -
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
BELL HOOKS -
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
BELL HOOKS