Audre Lorde Quotes

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink. Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.

Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

We women have to stick together.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.

I think women supporting women is priceless.

I 100% want to support the movement, #MeToo and Time's Up. We are a sisterhood.

I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.

As feminists, we have to become more tolerant of each other's differences because we are essentially working towards the same goal.

Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.

As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.

I really wish women of color would come together more and stand up for each other.

More women need to stick together.

I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.