Challenges Quote by Bell Hooks

“Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle…

— Bell Hooks

Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are…

— Bell Hooks

“If we start close to home, we open ourselves out. I will try to show how, in making sense of things that happen, we…

— Sara Ahmed

We are changing constantly, but the real issue is whether we change for the better or the worse, whether or not we succeed in…

— Senora Roy

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

— Liz Phair

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

— Forrest Griffin

“A personal revolution is the consequence of confronting self - as is.”

— T.F. Hodge

The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for…

— Bell Hooks

Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting…

— Pema Chodron

“Challenge yourself to find ways to demonstrate your changing reality.”

— John Kehoe

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three…

— Ani DiFranco