People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

- bell hooks, Rock My Soul 

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

- bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

I have wanted them to have this simple definition to read again and again so they know: Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

- bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody

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The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

- bell hooks, Women, Art, and Society