What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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