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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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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History
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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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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 us, the love of Black women for each other. – Audre Lorde

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Women
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Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. – Margaret Drabble

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Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, theres the opportunity seeds of great success. Theyre not miles apart. So if theyre that close together, and if youre really working, youre always gonna have that likelihood that somethings not going to work. – Peter Guber

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Failure

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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Failure

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. – Arsene Wenger

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Failure

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Far from the madding crowd – Thomas Gray

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When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit. – Jerry Falwell

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. – Euripides

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Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
For babies grow up, weve learned to our sorrow
So quiet down, cobwebs
Dust, go to sleep
Im rocking my baby, and babies dont keep. – Anon.

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