Quote by Audre Lorde
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at un

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 are Black men. – Audre Lorde

Other quotes by Audre Lorde

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 bridge across our fears of what has never been before. – Audre Lorde

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architecture
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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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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 our culture. – Audre Lorde

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Women
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Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. – Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933

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Women

I didnt want to set up a womens studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, its male-dominated. – Madeleine Albright

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Women

I married beneath me — all women do. – Nancy Astor, speech, Oldham, England, 1951

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Women

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. – Bela Lugosi

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Women

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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989

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It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. – Henry Ford, 1922, also sometimes quoted as “It is the customer that pays the wag

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Business

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Every man of courage is a man of his word. – Pierre Corneille

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