But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . . — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“As a black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
“I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share
How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
