"Who I am is what fulfills me and……" — Audre Lorde
"Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the 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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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
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I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get…
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It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior…
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No…
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an…
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.
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I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
— Jo Brand
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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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