I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEI find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish 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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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 more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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