Taken from the undeniable bell hooks, which I found a bit refreshing from the feminist blogosphere’s latest trainwreck on Feministe:

The exclusionary practices of women who dominate feminist discourse have made it practically impossible for new and varied theories to emerge…Yet groups of women who feel excluded from feminist discourse and praxis can make a place for themselves only if they first create, via critiques, an awareness of the factors that alienate them.  Many individual white women found in the women’s movement a liberatory solution to personal dilemmas.  Having directly benefited from the movement, they are less inclined to criticize it or to engage in rigorous examination of its structure than those who feel it has not had a revolutionary impact on their lives or the lives of masses of women in our society. -bell hooks, From Margin to Center, pg. 9