![]() Learning to love in friendships empowers us in ways that enable us to bring this love to other interactions with family or with romantic bonds.” hooks emphasizes the importance of community as a place to nurture love and reflects on her own experiences with love during her childhood. “Friendship is the place where the great majority of us have our first glimpse of redemptive love and caring community. Instead, she emphasizes the importance of love within families and friendships and reveals how they are connected. ![]() Categorizing love as simply a feeling and expression often ignores the decisions and actions that make love what it is, and so hooks reminds readers that love is a verb and requires action.Īccording to hooks, romantic love is not always the most important love. bell hooks challenges what we’ve so often been told about love, stating, “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust.” The author points to the varying dimensions of love, which pivots from the tendency to believe that love is simply a strong affection. ![]() Love is often defined as a feeling and expression. What is love? With millions of songs, endless films, shows, and now, social media content dedicated to this one word, do we really understand what it is? bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions,” reveals the flawed understanding of love that exists within society and encourages readers to rethink its true meaning. ![]()
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