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Away Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
- Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to…
- I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
- Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always…
- Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.…
- When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can…
- Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those…
- 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,…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius