Love saves us only if we want to be saved.” – Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. “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, we seek romantic relationships.
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.” – Bell Hooks In actuality, when we love rightly, we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.” – 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 forgive and forget. To know love we have to invest time and commitment…’dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love - which is to transform us.’” – Bell Hooks “Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. “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
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.” – Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions Best Bell Hooks Quotes on Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Bell Hooks Quotes on Relationships
Here are some of the most loved Bell Hooks quotes. Her ideas are essentially feminist, but their application extends even beyond the arena of gender inequality and all the way into the social dilemma of abilities vs. Better known by her pen name “Bell Hooks”, Gloria Jean Watkins (born 1952) is an American Author and prolific feminist and social activist.
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