Feminism Quote by bell hooks

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

— Bell Hooks

“Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism I offered in Feminist Theory:…

— Bell Hooks

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

— bell hooks

“Feminism remains a crucial element of any program for social justice today, which is why patriarchal forces attempt to eliminate or marginalize feminist ideas.”

— Robert Jensen

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to…

— Roxane Gay

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for…

— Camille Paglia

“I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of…

— Mike Adams

“My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into it. It…

— Moya Lloyd

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism,…

— Jessica Valenti

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

When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as…

— Anonymous

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie