Quotes by bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assu — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgi — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our a — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw i — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively.despite overwhelming evidenc — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and ar — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never f — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot c — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
The best sex and the most satisfying sex are not the same. I have had great sex with men who were intimate terrorists, m — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to s — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us t — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions