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When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

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Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these difference...more

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I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.......more

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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

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I seek no favor untouched by blood.

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When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we ...more

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...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

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Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy, in the way my body stretch...more

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

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No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us t...more

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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is th...more