Jo Bell Quotes

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really.

Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

there is no politically neutral art.

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

It is poetry that changes everything.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.