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Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media. ― Bell Hooks
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
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Love is the absence of judgment. ― Dalai Lama XIV
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 actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way. ― Bell Hooks
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Baruch Spinoza
Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. — Taylor Swift
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 mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. ― bell hooks
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it. — Nelson Mandela
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