Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
Bell HooksHope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
Bell HooksI guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.
Bell HooksTo me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.
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