We need intimacy, but we don't need partnership we need community, and a circle of love, and friendship. Hooks talks about how hard it can be for powerful, self-actualized women to find powerful, self-actualized men who are deeply committed to equality and freedom for women, and that this means that women need to learn to thrive regardless of whether they have a partner, rather than counting on a partner to meet their emotional needs. I am only now beginning to love myself and others with deep knowledge of what it means to be human. hooks says that most women only start to really excel at the art of love in midlife, and this has been my experience only now am I really learning to love myself, and to approach all relationships with an open heart and a deep commitment to acting at all times with care, respect, and responsibility. In "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell argues that it takes about 10,000 hours of practice become an expert at something. hooks agrees with Fromm that love is an art form, "an action informed by care, respect, knowledge, and responsibility." hooks says that it is not possible to have love and domination at the same time we only really love in relationships that honor freedom and equality. I love bell hooks in general, but happened to read this book at exactly the right time in my life so that it was a profound and transformative experience it is always gratifying to see my own philosophy laid out in print with articulate grace, and "Communion" was deeply affirming in that way. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman - mother, daughter, friend, and lover - needs to have. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives. Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with The Female Search for Love. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Black People and Love.
“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About New Visions.
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