773 Quotes by Bell Hooks

To bring a love ethic to every dimension of our lives, our society would need to embrace change.

To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love.

True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption.

Erotic attention often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love.

To live fully we would need to let go of our fear of dying.

Discipline and devotion are necessary to the practice of love, all the more so when relationships are just beginning.

When men lie to women, presenting a false self, the terrible price they pay to maintain "power over" us is the loss of their capacity to give and receive love.

If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning.

At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.