Bell Hooks Quotes

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Susan B. Anthony need not hold us hostage forever.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

Yes, I'm a suffragist.

The thing I have learned this year is that any improvement in the great mass of women is only possible through socialism…

Vote for Women – Vote Communist!

My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

You had a generation of women, of which I'm part, where it was a stigma to be associated with feminism; there was a backlash. Now you have a generation that is clearly embracing feminism because, at the end of the day, the definition of feminism is just equality.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.