Living simply makes loving simple.
BELL HOOKSThere will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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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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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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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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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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