Quote by Audre Lorde
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a cru

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. – Audre Lorde

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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. – Audre Lorde

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Women
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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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Its a struggle but thats why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. – Audre Lorde

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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. – William Howard Taft

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In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. – Andy Murray

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Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. – Roger von Oech

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. – Lao Tzu

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. – Arnold Bennett

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