The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEFor each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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