If women want a feminist revolution — ours is a world that is crying out for feminist revolution — then we must assume responsibility for drawing wom… - bell hooks

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

The search for love continued even in the face of great odds.

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.