Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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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 a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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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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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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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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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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