Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKSI think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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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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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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 is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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