"Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on."

-- Bell Hooks

#Moving Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Commitment Quotes

“I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.”
“But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.”
“I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.”
“But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.”
“Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2013). “Big Brother”, p.11, HarperCollins UK
“I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.”
“Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.”

Source : "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.
“Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?”

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