Feminism Quotes by Audre Lorde

Women are powerful and dangerous.

— Audre Lorde

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

— Audre Lorde

I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

— Audre Lorde

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

— Audre Lorde

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

— Audre Lorde

“The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by…

— Audre Lorde

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson.…

— Audre Lorde

“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

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only…

— Audre Lorde

“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our…

— Audre Lorde

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that…

— Audre Lorde

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will…

— Audre Lorde

“And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be…

— Audre Lorde

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But…

— Audre Lorde

“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and…

— Audre Lorde

As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual…

— Audre Lorde

If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how…

— Audre Lorde

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the…

— Audre Lorde

“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me…

— Audre Lorde

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me.…

— Audre Lorde

“As a black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual…

— Audre Lorde

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of…

— Audre Lorde

“And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those…

— Audre Lorde

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .

— Audre Lorde

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were…

— Audre Lorde