"For women, the need and desire to nurture……" — Audre Lorde
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world..."
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186 Quotes by Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde has 186 quotes on this site.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social…
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and…
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
— Martha Beck
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
— John Berger
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
— Rachel Bilson
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more…
— Sandra Bullock
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Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one…
— Sandra Bullock
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play…
— Leo Buscaglia
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