"Often girls feel deeply cared about as small……" — Bell Hooks
"Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable."
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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site.
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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…
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More Affirming Quotes
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
— Louise Hay
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It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons…
— Medea Benjamin
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired,…
— Scott Lively
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one…
— Willis Harman
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has…
— Vaclav Havel
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
— Jane Fonda
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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a…
— Emily Blunt
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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps…
— Brian Evenson
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