Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to… - bell hooks

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

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter even when it does not lead to sexual pleasure, committed bonding, or even sustained contact. The myth of true love-that fairy-tale vision of two souls who meet, join, and live happily ever thereafter-is the stuff of childhood fantasy. Yet many of us, female and male, carry these fantasies into adulthood and are unable to cope with the reality of what it means to either have an intense life-altering connection that will not lead to an ongoing relationship or to be in a relationship. True love does not always lead to happily ever after, and even when it does sustaining love still takes work.