I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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 are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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