I had the strength to rebel, but I did not have the strength to let go. - bell hooks

A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power.