I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
BELL HOOKSI think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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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 an action, never simply a feeling.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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