"Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment… Dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love — which is to transform us."

— bell hooks  (via transformfeminism)

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"as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing— yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves” - Bell Hooks"

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