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How can any girl sustain the belief that she is loved, truly loved, when all around her she sees that femaleness is despised? Unable to change the fact of femaleness, she strives to maker herself over, to become someone worthy of love.

— bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love (via femmenoire)

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    Why do I not own any bell hooks books??? I kept a textbook from college that has some of her writing in it. BUT THAT...
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