Jo Bell Quotes

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

I woke to the sound of rain.

What I've noticed about celebrities is, if they are really successful, they're more down-to-earth.

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves.

Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.

I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

What makes us human is what is delightful

Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.

There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

I think of myself as a content creator and hopefully one day a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

I have the mouth of a sailor.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...

Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.