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Relationships Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
- Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
- Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
- When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
- To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
- 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.…
- Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated…
- To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to…
- 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…
- 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…
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