Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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b
"The nature of love is growth"
bell hooks
b
"We heal in relationship"
bell hooks
A
"You can't just say I love you and not show it through your actions."
Angela Y. Davis
A
"Love requires action and accountability."
Angela Y. Davis
S
"Love as currently constructed serves primarily to keep women enslaved to men's desires."
Shulamith Firestone
G
"Happily married women are not satisfied in the way that happily married men are."
Germaine Greer
G
"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman has passed into and out of your life, then you have never really loved."
Germaine Greer
G
"The concept of romantic love is the greatest con game ever perpetrated on women."
Germaine Greer
G
"The institutional nature of marriage is what corrupts love."
Germaine Greer
K
"Understanding intersectionality is an act of love and a commitment to collective liberation."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
b
"Healing is an act of forgiveness and self-love."
bell hooks
b
"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."
bell hooks
b
"The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression."
bell hooks
b
"The moment we truly love something, we begin to see it more clearly."
bell hooks
b
"Real love is about mutual transformation and growth."
bell hooks
b
"To love is to risk being hurt, and that risk is what makes love sacred."
bell hooks
b
"Love is the force that holds the universe together."
bell hooks
A
"Romantic love is often the idealization of female submission."
Andrea Dworkin
A
"Love between women is radical because it exists outside male-defined sexuality."
Andrea Dworkin
G
"Real love is accepting other people exactly as they are."
Gloria Steinem
G
"Grief is the price we pay for having loved deeply."
Gloria Steinem
G
"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."
Gloria Steinem
A
"Love is a practice, not a feeling."
Angela Y. Davis
A
"We must learn to love ourselves and each other fiercely."
Angela Y. Davis
A
"Love requires us to see the full humanity in one another."
Angela Y. Davis
B
"Girls are raised to see romance as the most important thing in their lives, yet they are never prepared for its complexity."
Betty Friedan
S
"Love, as it exists under patriarchy, is often a trap disguised as fulfillment."
Shulamith Firestone
S
"Love that asks us to diminish ourselves is not love but consumption."
Shulamith Firestone
G
"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman has passed into and out of your life, then you have missed one of the most soul-enriching experiences possible."
Germaine Greer
G
"A man adores a woman who loves him."
Germaine Greer