Your silence will not protect you.
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.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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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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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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