There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKSThe rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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