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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)
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
“There is no special love exclusively reserved for romantic partners. Genuine love is the foundation of our engagement with ourselves, with family, with friends, with partners, with everyone we choose to love.”
— bell hooks, from All About Love: New Visions
Author bell hooks said, “Women’s liberationists, white and black, will always be at odds with one another as long as our idea of liberation is based on having the power white men have. For that power denies unity, denies common connections, and is inherently divisive.”
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Women have been convinced that marriage and sexual orientation toward men are inevitable, even if unsatisfying or oppressive, components of their lives.
adrienne rich, compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence
Patriarchal culture continues to control the hearts of men precisely because it socializes males to believe that without their role as patriarchs they will have no reason for being.
bell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Wherever domination is present, love is lacking ... Love can never take root in a relationship based on domination and coercion. There can be no love where there is domination.[