As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
BELL HOOKSLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
-
-
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
BELL HOOKS -
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
BELL HOOKS -
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
BELL HOOKS -
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
BELL HOOKS -
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKS -
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.
BELL HOOKS -
Feminism is for everybody.
BELL HOOKS -
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.
BELL HOOKS -
Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKS -
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKS -
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
BELL HOOKS -
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
BELL HOOKS -
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
BELL HOOKS -
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
BELL HOOKS -
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKS