All About Love / bell hooks

Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling. In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

p. 114

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

p. 140

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