"Ultimately, I could not count on finding love, I could count on my mind. I looked for love, but I found freedom. And the freedom I found changed my way of thinking about the place of love in a woman’s life. I began to see that the proper place for love in a woman’s life was not relational love as the source but love generated in the quest for self-realization. By claiming that quest as essential, as the journey that would determine my fate, I realized that the proper place for love was the solid foundation on which i would invent self and create life. Uniting the search for love with the quest to be free was the crucial step. Searching for love, I found the path to freedom. Learning how to be free was the first step in learning to know love.”
-Bell Hooks: ‘Communion: a female search for love’
*snaps fingers* yes! yes!
