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Women Quotes by Audre Lorde
- 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…
- 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,…
- Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and…
- For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
- The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.
- The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
- 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…
- But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we…
- Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify…
- The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .
- 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…
- I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are…
- When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether…
- But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
- 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…
- We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from…
- Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than…
- When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate…
- Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and…
- My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made…
- 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…
- Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no…
- 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…
- Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles…
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood