Communion: The Female Search for Love: 2 (Love Song to the Nation, 2)

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It is a testament to the learned ignorance of political reality that so many females cannot accept that patriarchy requires of men cruelty to women, that the will to do violence defines heterosexual, patriarchal masculinity.

love and feminism bell hooks quotes: Her profound words on love and feminism

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? Try having a conversation with almost any man about whether it is best to cease sexual intercourse if a woman is uncomfortable. If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. As should be the case, many working women find it wonderful to be home when they have a newborn babe.Women, like my mother, who have stayed in marriages with unkind husbands for more than fifty years, will condemn acts of cruelty and unkindness that as late as ten years ago they would have sought to justify or explain away. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives. Nowadays almost everyone knows that not all men are stronger than women, or smarter, or less emotional, and so on.

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Women are afraid to hear patriarchal men speak their thoughts and feelings when what they reveal expresses a reality vastly different from how we imagined them to be.

Most feminist groups began with women talking about how we saw ourselves and other women, how we acted.