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I learned to find my value in the family home through taking care of others, a role that women and girls are commonly made to feel is their only value in their home and their culture.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
The tie that binds her to her oppressors is unlike any other. The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history.
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you
... See moreLindy West • Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
Feminism must be on the cutting edge of real social change if it is to survive as a movement in any particular country. Whatever the core problems are for the people of that country must also be the core problems addressed by women, for we do not exist in a vacuum.
Audre Lorde, Jen Keenan, • A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work
We fall into romantic attachments doomed to replay familiar family dramas. Usually we do not know this will happen precisely because we have grown up in a culture that has told us that no matter what we experienced in our childhoods, no matter the pain, sorrow, alienation, emptiness, no matter the extent of our dehumanization, romantic love will be
... See morebell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
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.