Bell Hooks Quotes

Love is a skill you learn.

Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

Woman is very much more in contact with their feeling than a man. As a matter of fact, woman always teach to men how to love.

I have cooked for a recruit. The biggest recruit of my life: my wife.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

The art of love is who you share it with.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.