When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
BELL HOOKSKnowing 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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