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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

Audre Lorde

Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
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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Arena Battle Blessing Choose Manner Revolution Stand
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
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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Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Arena Change Choose Immediate Responsiblity Stand
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
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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Action Attempt Constant Dreams Encouragement Ideas Ourselves
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Creation Need Start Writing
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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Alive Eat Fantasy Inspirational Myself People Self Respect
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
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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Act Believe Care Indulgence Myself Survival

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

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