Quotes by bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving awa — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism. — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Most American women, particularly white women, have not decolonized their thinking either in relation to the racism, sex — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of co — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of w — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism. — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Lifestyle feminism ushered in a notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly th — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminist politics is losing momentum because feminist movement has lost clear definitions. We have those definitions. Le — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitali — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
When women with class power opportunistically use a feminist platform while undermining feminist politics that helps kee — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same. — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Addressing the economic plight of women may ultimately be the feminist platform that draws a collective response. It may — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
If improving conditions in the workplace for women had been a central agenda for feminist movement in conjunction with e — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Critical interventions around race did not destroy the women's movement; it became stronger . . . It shows us that no ma — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Overall women in our society are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood. Renewed feminist movement must once again — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Masses of the people think that feminism is always the only about women seeking to be equal to men. Their misunderstandi — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression. I liked this definition because it — bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics