Below are the best quotes we could find featuring bell hooks about womens well being.
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All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.
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.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much.’. . . No woman has ever written enough.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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