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#1

“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: battle, conflict, dehumanization, endless, humanity, war

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#2

“In the fifties and sixties, my dark closet years, I never felt sick, never felt sinful, and never took my criminal status to be more than the unfortunate result of society’s ignorance and bigotry.”
― Ginny Vida, New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book

tags: homophobia

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#3

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

tags: feminism, male-violence, radical-feminism, women

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#4

“World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.”
― Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy

tags: war

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#5

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
― Alice Walker

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#6

“It would be putting it mildly to say that the lesbian represents a threat to patriarchal protocol: Western civilization has for centuries been haunted by a fear of ‘women without men’—of women indifferent or resistant to male desire.”
― Terry Castle, The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture

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#7

“Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.”
― Adrienne Rich

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#8

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights

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#9

“If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.”
― Adrienne Rich

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#10

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
― Adrienne Rich

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#11

“In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.”
― Catharine A. MacKinnon

tags: inequality, language, oppression, power, racism, sexism, sociolinguistics

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#12

“Women’s history is the primary tool for women’s emancipation.”
― Gerda Lerner

tags: feminism, history, women, women-s-studies

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#13

“The less that women are visible as a research subject, the less we are likely to learn about lesbians.”
― Bonnie J. Morris, The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture

tags: lesbian, lesbian-history, lgbt, lgbt-history, women-s-history

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#14

“Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.”
― Dean Spade

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#15

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
― Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

tags: prayer

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#16

“Activism” is not just what we see on the streets or on the Internet or in the news; sometimes, “activism” is the simple act of doggedly, determinedly surviving.”
― Barbara Gurr, Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women

tags: activism, reproductive-justice, survival

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#17

“Remember: Oppression thrives off isolation. Connection is the only thing that can save us.”
― Yolo Akili

tags: connection, oppression

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#18

“An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.

It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.

It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

tags: human, love, relationships

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#19

“If I am peaceful…is not peace,/is getting used to harm.”
― Dionne Brand

tags: peace

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#20

“It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.”
― Leslie Feinberg

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#21

“We must stand together, realizing the complexity of our histories, both personal and social, choosing when we can tolerate each other’s company and when we cannot. We must never pretend to be experts on each other’s lives, never belittle the deep differences that do exist or pretend that we do not see the places of exposed pain.”
― Joan Nestle, A Restricted Country

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#22

“The idea that we can somehow escape affecting each other is deeply conservative. Barbarous, even.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

tags: liberal

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#23

“When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.”
― Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

tags: feminism

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#24

“Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?”
― Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness

tags: feminism

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#25

“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”
― Sara Ahmed

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#26

“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
― Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

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#27

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

tags: equal-rights, equality, feminism, freedom, liberty, women

1307 likes

#28

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20724 likes

#29

“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. Over the last few years, writing a novel on tight finances, I came to appreciate the enormous differences in the material demands between poetry and prose. As we reclaim our literature, poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: art, class, gender, literature, poetry, prose, race

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