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Quote by Audre Lorde
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emo

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. – Audre Lorde

Other quotes by Audre Lorde

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. – Audre Lorde

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Learning
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Audre Lorde
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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 light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. – Audre Lorde

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Truth
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Audre Lorde
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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 hope to bring about through those lives. – Audre Lorde

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Hope
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Women
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Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women. – Teri Garr

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Women

You think intercourse is a private act its not, its a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. – Andrea Dworkin

Category:
Women

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so its important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are. – Dee Dee Myers

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Women

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. – Gertrude Stein

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Women

Random Quotes

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. – Geoffrey F. Abert

Category:
Self Respect

He that can have patience can have what he will. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Patience

I want to be able to look back and say, Ive done everything I can, and I was successful. I dont want to look back and say I should have done this or that. Id like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. – Michael Phelps

Category:
Change

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. – Barbara Tuchman

Category:
Government