Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
BELL HOOKSAll the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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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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 began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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