Quote by Bell Hooks
Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can o

Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. – Bell Hooks

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Fear
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Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. – Bell Hooks

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Experience
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. – Bell Hooks

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Men like women who write. Even though they dont say so. A writer is a foreign country. – Marguerite Duras

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I dont think balance is something you get from someone else its something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress. – Rachel Weisz

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Women

Men will never know the agony of childbirth, menstrual cramps, or removing glitter nail polish. – Author unknown

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No doubt exists that all women are crazy its only a question of degree. – W. C. Fields

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