Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSThere will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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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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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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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.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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