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While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bru...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 have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmi...more

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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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We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our sa...more

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Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of differ...more

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For 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 ...more

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Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our ...more

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I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of...more

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My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those ...more