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.
BELL HOOKSIt’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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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