Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
BELL HOOKSThe greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Feminism is for everybody.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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 will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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