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.
BELL HOOKSSince loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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 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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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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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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