Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
AUDRE LORDESometimes 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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 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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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