I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
BELL HOOKSNo black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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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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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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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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