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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.

Audre Lorde

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Afraid Regret Silence Women
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Afraid Hear Silence Speak Welcome Women Empowerment
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Bed Done Motivational Satisfaction Wake Up Work
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
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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Deal Evade Important Inspirational Pain Transcend
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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Boundary Ethnic Oppression Women
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Change Construct Each Other Enemy Future Inspirational Possible Template
When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Encouragement Hard Time Inspirational Time Work
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Feminism House Master Tool
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Problem Share Women
Our visions begin with our desires.
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Beginning Desire Inspirational One Liner Vision
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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Face Oppression Woman
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Empty Live Opposite Peace Spot Stars Women
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Aware Pay

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