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Needs Quotes by Bell Hooks
- People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
- I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet…
- Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
- In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with…
- I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
- Genuine 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…
- 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.…
- ..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be…
- All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing…
- We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us…
- Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
- Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they…
- One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious…
- I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain.…
- 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,…
- Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does…
- A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment.…
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