Audre Lorde Quotes
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters
Lorde, Audre. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Crossing Press, 1984, p. 111.
Dunn, a distinguished Australian educator, journalist and politician, coined the phrase back in 1970 when she was a student at the University of Sydney. She was paraphrasing the philosopher who said, 'Man needs God like fish need a bicycle.’
In its early history Wyoming was a very liberal—perhaps radical—state. Wyoming women were the first in the nation to vote, serve on juries and hold public office. In 1920, an all-female town council was elected in Jackson Hole, the first political unit in America to have a female government. This made national news and with it the “Equality State” entered the consciousness of most Americans.
Audre Lorde was an American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," who dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, capitalism, heterosexism, and homophobia.
