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Define Quotes by Audre Lorde
- If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive
- If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
- Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move…
- I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
- The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world,…
- It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures,…
- When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like…
More Define Quotes
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a… — Zadie Smith
- Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and… — Erykah Badu
- As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on… — Julie Burchill
- We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure.… — Benjamin Carson
- More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves. — Unknown Author
- This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,… — Elie Wiesel