Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDEWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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