I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating.… - bell hooks

Teachers of children see gender equality mostly in terms of ensuring that girls get to have the same privileges and rights as boys within the existing social structure; they do not see it in terms of granting boys the same rights as girls — for instance, the right to choose not to engage in aggressive or violent play, the right to play with dolls, to play dress up, to wear costumes of either gender, the right to choose.

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

Teaching women how to defend themselves against male rapists is not the same as working to change society so that men will not rape.