bell hooks

When reading bell hooks "Talking Back", I found myself to some point relating to her. My family always calls me the trouble maker, the 'rebel' of the family. I was always the one who would 8 out of the 10 times have something to say back when it was just time to walk away. One part in "Talking Back" that grabbed my attention was the quote on page 74, "The fear of exposure, the fear that ones deepest emotions and inner most thoughts will be dismissed as near nonsense, felt by so many young girls keeping diaries, holding and hiding speech, seems to me now one of the barriers that women have always needed and still need to destroy so that we are no longer pushed into secrecy or silence." I believe that she feel that it is so out dated to say that girls are expected to keep a notebook filled with feelings that we hide away so no one can see. bell hooks I wanted to say believed that girls and women together to step up and out of the so called cover we're under and take owner ship for our words. Also, to say them out loud and not be afraid of what other people are going to think of us. Everything is so different now, she talks about how her parents would talk about breaking her spirits, where my parents would never want to do that just because I am a girl. I believe a lot of things are different today with the way some people believe women should be.