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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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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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. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in acco...more

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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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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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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our child...more

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This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount...more

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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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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our worl...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

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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