Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks

To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

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.

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.