Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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