When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
Bell HooksWe don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
Bell HooksThere will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
Bell HooksThe true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.
Bell HooksGenuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.
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