Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKSSometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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 love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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