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Our Lives 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…
- 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…
- When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered,…
- Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel…
- The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we…
- Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a…
- Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic…
- The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we…
- And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to…
- We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives
- For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will…
More Our Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I… — George Matthew Adams
- When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson