Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About bell hooks
American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic
bell hooks was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky. She is known for writing under the name bell hooks and for shaping modern discussions of feminism and social critique. Her work examined race, gender, and social class, especially how they connect with capitalism and help sustain systems of oppression and class domination. She published nearly 40 books and many scholarly articles, moving between essays, poetry, and children's literature. Across that wide body of work, she wrote about love, art, history, sexuality, and mass media.
More from bell hooks (245 quotes) →Other sayings from bell hooks
- “I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smil…”bell hooks
- “Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.”bell hooks
- “For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and ye…”bell hooks
- “Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition…”bell hooks
More Self-Love quotes
Feminism: more sayings
- “The feminist story, she reminded me, is a counternarrative, a narrative of disobedience, a chronicle of battl…”Stephanie Staal
- “First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely eyed real…”Bill Maher
- “We can have everything we want as long as what we want is a life spent searching for exhausting work that doe…”Laurie Penny
READ THE SOURCE
Books by bell hooks
Feminism Is for Everybody
2000
Yearning
1990
Ain't I a Woman
1981
Teaching to transgress
2014
Reel to real
1996