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" 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, 1999

Did you know?

Bell hooks, born Gloria Jena watkins, chose the pen name “bell hooks” to honor her maternal great-grandmother, bell blair hooks, whom she admired growing up for her wit and “talking-back” nature. She used lowercase lettering for her pen name to prioritize attention to the material of her writing over her ownership of it, challenging traditional authorial authority in writing.