If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEWomen are powerful and dangerous.
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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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For 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.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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