Audre Lorde (1934–1992) was an American writer, poet, and activist. Her work on race, gender, and identity has profoundly influenced feminist and civil rights thought.
“Mothering ourselves means learning to love what we have given birth to by giving definition to, learning how to be both kind and demanding in the teeth of failure as well as in the face of success, and not misnaming either.”
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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