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• 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.

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  Struggle, Feminism, Western Culture

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.26, Routledge

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• A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

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  Teacher, Helping, Good Teacher

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• I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks

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  Thinking, Ideas, Intellectual

  Bell Hooks (1996). “Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies”, p.110, Psychology Press

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• Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

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  Ethos, Vision, Males

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.14, Routledge

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• The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

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  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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• I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.

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  Thinking, People, Important

  "You Don’t Have to Wear White: Rethinking Those Disney-esque Marriage Traditions" by J.N. Salters, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2013.

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• Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

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  Communication, Choices, Next Steps

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• When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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  Relationship, Pain, Commitment

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• Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives

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  Struggle, Men, Race

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.45, Routledge

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• There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

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  Feelings, Let It Go, Together

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• America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

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  Country, America, Race

  Source: nefac.net

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• The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

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  Country, Rights, Justice

  "A chat with the Author of 'All About Love: New Visions'". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

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  Wall, Fate, White

  Source: nefac.net

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• The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

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  Heart, World, Demand

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• The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.

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  Moving, Reading, Love Is

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• Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.106, Routledge

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• 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.

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  Feminism, Majority, Oppression

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.18, Routledge

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• The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

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  Struggle, Fighting, Racism

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.57, Routledge

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• There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

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  Effort, Understanding, Way

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• All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

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  Silence, Racist, Faces

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 1995.

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• Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

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  Intimate Relationships, Self, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.34, Routledge

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• Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

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  Cult Of Personality, Ideas, Consumers

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.227, Routledge

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• If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

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  Self, Agency, Giving

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• To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

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  Meaningful, Tasks, Meaningful Relationship

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• The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

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  Love Is, Verbs, Nouns

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