bell hooks Feminism Quotations

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

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

feminism is for everybody

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.