# bell hooks: her most quoted lines (with the book they come from)

"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression", the moment we choose to love and the crisis of patriarchal masculinity: the most quoted lines of bell hooks, from Ain't I a Woman and Feminist Theory to All About Love and The Will to Change, each with its source.

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- Feb 14, 2022 · roamer_lost
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## Top 11

1. **Class struggle is inextricably bound to the struggle to end racism.** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), p. 3.
2. **Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Feminism Is for Everybody (2000).
3. **Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Ain't I a Woman (1981).
4. **The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity.** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — The Will to Change (2004).
5. **To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995).
6. **The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Ain't I a Woman (1981).
7. **The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Outlaw Culture (1994), ch. "Love as the Practice of Freedom".
8. **Males learn to lie as a way of obtaining power, and females not only do the same but they also lie to pretend powerlessness.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — All About Love (2000), ch. 3.
9. **There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984).
10. **To be in touch with senses and emotions beyond conquest is to enter the realm of the mysterious.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Outlaw Culture (1994), ch. "Altars of Sacrifice".
11. **People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.** (-2 · ▲1 ▼3) — Rock My Soul (2003).

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