Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

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.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

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

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.