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Often Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that…
- 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…
- Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
- 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,…
- I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.
- Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are…
- Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy†to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever…
- The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
- Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves…
- When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
- 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 often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is…
- …“white supremacy†is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
- 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…
- schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept…
- In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not…
- All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In…
- Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
- An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any…
More Often Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong