Contact Quote by Audre Lorde

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

— Audre Lorde

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even…

— Audre Lorde

“Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. If our…

— Rebecca Solnit

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we…

— Audre Lorde

Your silence will not protect you.

— Audre Lorde

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in…

— Anonymous

Silence gives the proper grace to women

— Sophocles

“I write for these women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we…

— Audre Lorde

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

— Audre Lorde

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be,…

— Audre Lorde

There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe our true…

— Terry Tempest Williams