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“Over and over again as I talk with aging women who love about relationships, I hear us testify that the loneliness that may come with self actualization and self love is far preferable to the loneliness of being in a relationship where love is not present.”

“The greatest tragedy of marriage within patriarchal culture is not that so many couples divorce but that an even greater number of couples stay together without feeling that they love each other.”

Picking this one back up after a little hiatus

IM SO EXCITED TO READ THIS

If someone loves us but we are trapped by self-hatred, their love will never reach us. We will question it, devalue it, be like the heroine of Nikki Giovanni’s “Woman Poem,” who declares, “i ain’t shit you must be lower / than that to care.”

+ nikki giovanni pull & rip to both of them.

I actually had to go back and read it twice. I like to feel a though I know more than anyone about the importance of self love, mind and body. But hooks talks about how a lot of us woman will find ourselves conditioned to certain beliefs, often loosing ourselves for the sake of love. You’ll often find that most women won’t truly grasp the true concept of love until your mid forties.