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“All too frequently in the women’s movement it was assumed one could be free of sexist thinking by simply adopting the appropriate feminist rhetoric; it was further assumed that identifying oneself as oppressed freed one from being an oppressor.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“It was very urgent that I got out of my life.
Inside the greasy spoon's steamed up windows and haze of cigarette smoke, this sense of urgency accelerated. I had so little time. Time for what? I didn't know but I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me and I had to work out what it was before I cleaned the oven.”
― Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

“Men of all races in America bond on the basis of their common belief that a patriarchal social order is the only viable foundation of society. Their patriarchal stance is not simply an acceptance of a social etiquette based on discrimination against women; it is a serious political commitment to maintaining political regimes throughout the United States and the world that are male-dominated.”
― Bell Hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“When other people couldn't see that I was trying it fell like no matter how hard I tried, it wouldn't really be trying at all.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness