Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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