bell hooks Husband: Was bell hooks Married? Who Was bell hooks Boyfriend?
Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist.
Gloria Jean Watkins borrowed the name “bell hooks” from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.
bell hooks was born on September 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky a small, segregated town in Kentucky, to a working-class African-American family.
bell hooks graduated from Hopkinsville High School before obtaining her BA in English from Stanford University in 1973, and her MA in English from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976.
During this time, at 19, bell hooks was writing her book Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, which was published in 1981.
In 1983, after several years of teaching and writing, she completed her doctorate in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a dissertation on author Toni Morrison.
Sadly, bell hooks passed away on December 15, 2021 at the age of 69.
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Was bell hooks Married?
bell hooks never got married.
Who Was bell hooks’ Boyfriend?
bell hooks is not known to have been involved in a relationship with anyone.
In a 2017 interview with Abigail Bereola, bell hooks commented on the aspect of love and the difficulties she believed came along with the concept.
“I think the true work of love is just so hard,
“It requires integrity, that there be a congruency between what we think, say, and do. I think romance has the total different feeling of ‘it’s easy, it comes and goes,’ so I think that people would rather settle for a counterfeit of love than to actually do the work of love.”
bell hooks went on to say how difficult it is to truly know somebody, and how long it takes to fully let yourself go with another.
“I don’t have a partner. I’ve been celibate for 17 years,” she continued.
“And I would love to have a partner, but I don’t think that my life is less meaningful.”
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