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Book: Communion: The Female Search for Love
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  1. bell hooks _ Communion: The Female Search

    Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their reason for being is not to replace marriage but to open the possibility of sustained, committed true love existing among friends, and not just same-sex friends. No matter that our chosen relationship commitments change. Those of us who have long-term romantic friendships, some that have lasted longer than any of our marriages or partnerships, do not fear that these commitments will falter if we create primary bonds.
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  2. bell hooks _ Communion: The Female Search

    I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.
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  3. bell hooks _ Communion: The Female Search

    Women talk about love. From girlhood on, we learn that conversations about love are a gendered narrative, a female subject...Femaleness in patriarchal culture marks us from the very beginning as unworthy or not as worthy, and it should come as no surprise that we learn to worry most as girls, as women, about whether we are worthy of love.
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  4. bell hooks _ Communion: The Female Search

    Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.
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  5. bell hooks _ Communion: The Female Search

    I had the strength to rebel, but I did not have the strength to let go."
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  6. bell hooks _ Communion: The Female Search

    The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love.
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  7. bell hooks _ Communion: The Female Search

    Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?
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  8. bell hooks _ Communion: The Female Search

    Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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