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Feelings Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand…
- Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we…
- It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged…
- For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut…
- I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.
- The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our…
- I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the…
- For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts…
- Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
- The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
- We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives
More Feelings Quotes
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt
- When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have… — Lauren Bacall
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs