Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
BELL HOOKSWhenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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 Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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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 feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Sometimes 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.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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