When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. ― bell hooks

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We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

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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

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

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Living simply makes loving simple. ― bell hooks

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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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

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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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

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