Bell Hooks in her book, All About Love, is attempting to define love and qualify whether it is a noun or a verb. She says it well:
"M. Scott Peck's classic self-help book, The Road Less Traveled, first published in 1978...echoing the work of Erich Fromm, defines love as "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." ...
"Love is as love does. Love is an act of will - namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies voice. We do not have to love. We choose to love...this definition counters the more widely accepted assumption that we love instinctually."
(page 4, 5)
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