Bell Hooks Quotes

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

Man is the organizer of life, woman is his organ for carrying out plans.

Feminists want to be treated equally until they are.