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Quote by Audre Lorde
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other unti

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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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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Failure
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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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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 taught to respect fear more than ourselves. Weve been taught that silence would save us, but it wont. – Audre Lorde

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Fear
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors. – Voltaire

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I dont mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone elses object. – Tori Amos

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Women have a predestination to suffering. – Bela Lugosi

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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. – Daphne du Maurier

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