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Needs Quotes by Audre Lorde
- I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.
- There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece…
- I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there
- 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…
- If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal…
- Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
- If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we…
- What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and…
- For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that…
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