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.
BELL HOOKSThe practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Feminism is for everybody.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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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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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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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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