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 HOOKSGenuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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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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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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