“There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.” — Audre Lorde Quote

“There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.”

“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.”

“Your silence will not protect you.”

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”

“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”

“Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”

“A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

“We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.”