As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. - bell hooks

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.