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.
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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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 political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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