Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
BELL HOOKSWe 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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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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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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 think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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