But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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