Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“To demystify the meaning of love, the art and practice of loving, we need to use sound definitions of love when talking… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of control. Feminist thinkers… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Only a revolution of values...will end male violence, and that revolution will necessarily be based on a love ethic. To create loving… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“It still took years for me to let go of learned pattern's of behavior that negated my capacity to give and receive… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Let's not kid ourselves, we find mutual love only when we know how to love. And the best place to start practicing… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients -- care, affection, recognition, respect,… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
![“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients -- care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. [...] When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them; that is, we invest feelings…” quote by bell hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f5b/bell-hooks-464_love_affection-is-only-one-ingredient-of-love_1238112.jpg)
