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Bell Hooks Quote - 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.

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.

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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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 feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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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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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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