Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
BELL HOOKSOnce you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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