I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks ― bh

---

Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

---

Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives. ― bell hooks

---

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.― bell hooks,

---

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ― Bell Hooks

---

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. ― bell hooks

---

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

---

The unexamined life is not worth living.

---

People live miserably without loving well and people love miserably without living well. ― Srinivas Mishra

---

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making. ― Reba McEntire

---