Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation Book 2)

by bell hooks

“None of us are getting better at love: we are getting more scared of it. We were not given good skills to begin with, and the choices we make have tended only to reinforce our sense that it is hopeless and useless.” We are indeed living in an age when women and men are more likely to long for power than they are to long for love. We can all speak of our longing for power. Our longing for love must be kept secret. To give voice to such longing is to be counted among the weak, the soft.

Love this quote and analysis

There is no love without justice.

When we are self-loving, we attend to the deeper needs of our soul, we no longer fear abandonment or loss of recognition. We see ourselves clearly as we really are. And that clarity is the source of our strength and peace of mind. It is the space of mindful awareness where we can search for love together, communing and celebrating, cherishing the sweetness of sustained female solidarity.

Self love is the root to self-acualization and community building with other woman. Building female communities has to be based in all parties sharing their rawest truth and being honest with eachother.