Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDEWe recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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