Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
BELL HOOKSGenuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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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 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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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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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