bell hooks Feminism Quotations

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

feminism is for everybody

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

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

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".