Feminism Quotes by Bell Hooks

feminism is for everybody

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Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.

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

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“Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same.”

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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power…

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The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies…

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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

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I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's…

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Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but…

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As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female…

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Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice,…

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

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“We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a…

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“Most American women, particularly white women, have not decolonized their thinking either in relation to the racism, sexism, and class elitism they…

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“Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist…

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When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world…

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Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically,…

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“Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation…

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“In an imperialist racist patriarchal society that supports and condones oppression, it is not surprising that men and women judge their worth,…

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A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share…

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“To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined…

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If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with…

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“Women, all women, are accountable for racism continuing to divide us. Our willingness to assume responsibility for the elimination of racism need…

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“Unfortunately, our over-emphasis on the male as oppressor often obscures the fact that men too are victimized. To be an oppressor is…

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“In the early years of contemporary feminist movement, solidarity between women was often equated with the formation of "safe" spaces where groups…

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“Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and…

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Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that…

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“Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women…

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

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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

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Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates…

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Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

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as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning…

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To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to…

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Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain…

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“The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.”

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We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

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Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of…

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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

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