https://summaryshelf.app/authors/bell-hooks/Recent content in Bell Hooks on SummaryShelfHugoen-usSun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/all-about-love/Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/all-about-love/<p>Almost nobody can tell you what love actually is. It saturates our songs and films, usually as a male-dominated fantasy, yet it barely enters serious public conversation, and without a shared definition people flail. They mistake a rush of feeling for love, or need for it, or even abuse for it. bell hooks borrows the definition she finds most useful, from M. Scott Peck: love is &ldquo;the will to extend one&rsquo;s self for the purpose of nurturing one&rsquo;s own or another&rsquo;s spiritual growth.&rdquo; The key word is will. Love is an intention and an action, which means it is a choice. We do not love instinctively; we decide to. And anything you can choose, you can learn to do better.</p>