Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
BELL HOOKSI will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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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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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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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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