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“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Uniting the search for love with the quest to be free was the crucial step. Searching for love, I found the path to freedom. Learning how to be free was the first step in learning to know love.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love – A Profound Vision for Self-Love, Sisterhood, Liberation, and Emotional Growth

“Everything is bearable when there is love. My wish is that you try to give more people more love. The only thing that lives forever is love.” The female search for love is what life should be all about.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love – A Profound Vision for Self-Love, Sisterhood, Liberation, and Emotional Growth

“Romance is different when two people approach each other from the space of knowledge rather than absolute mystery. No matter how well we get to know someone else, there is always a realm of mystery. Old ideas about romantic love taught females and males to believe that erotic tension depended on the absence of communication and understanding. This misinformation about the nature of love has helped to further the politics of domination, particularly male domination of women. Without knowing one other, we can never experience intimacy.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love