Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 2

Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost everyone believes that we can have sex without love; mosr folks do not believe that a couple can have love in a relationship if there is no sex.

Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied.

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Feminist movement is pro-family.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.