Love Quotes Quote by Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

“Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.”

“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.”

““I would love to say”

“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.”

““If anyone were to find out—” I began.”

“I feel…and I have reason to believe…that we could come to mean something to each other.”

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”

“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.”