I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.
– bell hooks
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- A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving… There can be no love without justice. – bell hooks
- First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men. – bell hooks
- Life is about finding yourself. Finding yourself is about finding your ultimate goal, ultimate passion. – Debasish Mridha
- It is okay to date and experience all the excitement, thrills, and passion that romance offers, but let the love of your life be yourself. – Jenna Alatari
- In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism. – Loretta Chase
- Patience is a skill that brings beauty. Patience brings strength. Patience brings happiness – Practice patience and you will achieve your goals! – Angie karan
- I tell them that love is always there-“that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find. – bell hooks
- Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? – bell hooks
- Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. – bell hooks
- Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world. – bell hooks
- When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It’s not what you do but how you do it. – bell hooks
- Feminist movement is pro-family. – bell hooks
- To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism. – bell hooks
- The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism. – bell hooks
- Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same. – bell hooks
- As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. – bell hooks
- Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. – bell hooks
- ..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. – bell hooks
- Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. – bell hooks
- Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. – bell hooks
- True resistance begins with people confronting pain… and wanting to do something to change it. – bell hooks
- When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape. – bell hooks
- Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself – bell hooks
- Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power. – bell hooks
- Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.- – Bell Hooks – Win Quier
- black identities are diverse and complex-¦ – bell hooks
- Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know. – bell hooks
- The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over. – bell hooks
- It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power. – bell hooks
- To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change. – bell hooks
- Addiction makes love impossible. – bell hooks
- How much Romance do you like in your Fantasy? And, respectively, how much Questing do you like in your Romance? – Paula Millhouse
- Taking a risk is something we do not for our mind but for how it makes us feels, emotions it brings, excitement it creates and I feel alive. – Luke Blaise Pereira
- Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it. – Andy Warhol
- I take my food very seriously. Whenever I hear that bell, I know Mrs. Norris is hankerin’ for some spam. – Sandy Ward Bell
- We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer. – Paul David Tripp
- Never accept help from a dragon. Dragons do not offer help. They offer fate. – Steven Poore
- We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They’ll have to offer a well-presented theatre show. – Syd Barrett
- When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. – Debasish Mridha
- She didn’t want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink. – SA Tawks