There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKSThere is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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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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Once 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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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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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