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How can any girl sustain the belief that she is loved, truly loved, when all around her she sees that femaleness is despised?
Bell Hooks • Communion
"Feminist masculinity presupposes that it is enough for males to be to have value, that they do not have to 'do,' to 'perform,' to be affirmed and loved."
– bell hooks, The Will to Change
bell hooks Institute.
bell hooks • Comunhão: a busca das mulheres pelo amor (Trilogia do Amor) (Portuguese Edition)
Women have not proven that they care enough about the hearts of men, about their emotional well-being, to challenge patriarchy on behalf of those men with whom they want to know love.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
to be accepted in our physical and spiritual beings rather than feeling we had to make ourselves into a fantasy self to become the object of male desire).
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
"Males are not allowed simply to be who they are and to glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do."
– Bell Hooks, The Will to Change