“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

— bell hooks · Love quote

Love is an action, never simply a feeling. — bell hooks quote card
Author and feminist theorist · 1952 – 2021

bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was an American author and feminist theorist who wrote more than thirty books on race, gender, class and love, including Ain't I a Woman and All About Love. She styled her pen name, taken from her great-grandmother, in lowercase to keep the focus on her ideas.

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