Doha

“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.”
― bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work

“as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves”
― bell hooks

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”
― bell hooks