Whatever . . . Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves

Whatever . . . Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves

by Maria Bello
Whatever . . . Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves

Whatever . . . Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves

by Maria Bello

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Overview

The acclaimed actress questions the labels we wear when it comes to partnership, career, love, and sexuality in this deeply moving memoir.

Written as a series of provocative questions and thoughtful answers, Whatever . . . Love Is Love is filled with deeply personal, often funny, and even passionate stories, stories in which Maria bares her soul and shares what she’s learned—not only about romantic love, but also about her relationship with her parents, her feelings about spirituality, her sexual identity, the highs and lows of her career, her humanitarian work, and her worth as a mother.

Using her experiences as a gateway to a larger conversation, Maria encourages you to think about the life you lead, who you love, what you do, what you believe in, and what you call yourself . . . and helps you to realize that the only labels that matter are the ones we place on and accept for ourselves, even if they don’t fit the mold of “typical.”

Whatever . . . Love Is Love isn’t your typical celebrity memoir. . . . Instead, each chapter, through charming candor and humor, challenges a series of ‘labels’ that represent impossible standards to which we hold ourselves.” —Marie Claire

“Never preachy, in this book [Bello] diligently and methodically deconstructs where her values have come from. . . . Personal, provocative, and inspiring.” —Patricia Arquette, Oscar®-nominated actor

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062351852
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/21/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 243
Sales rank: 926,765
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

About The Author

Maria Bello is an activist, actor, and writer. Her essay “Coming Out as a Modern Family” was one of the ten most popular to appear in the New York Times’s Modern Love column. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 Am I A Partner? 9

2 Am I A Catholic? 19

3 Am I Forgiving? 33

4 Am I A Bad Girl? 45

5 Am I Perfect? 57

6 Am I A Good Mom? 69

7 Am I A Humanitarian? 83

8 Am I Cinderella? 101

9 Am I Damaged? 119

10 Am I A Feminist? 135

11 Am I LGBT or W? 151

12 Am I Resilient? 163

13 Am I A Writer? 177

14 Am I Enough? 189

Epilogue 207

Acknowledgments 215

Resources 221

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