“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.”
"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever."
- Audre Lorde
Love
"I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined...imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness."
- Audre Lorde
Awareness
"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."
- Audre Lorde
Awareness
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
- Audre Lorde
Compassion
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
- Audre Lorde
Compassion
"Beauty is a gentle and loving heart."
- Beauty and the Beast
Compassion
"There is no greater beauty than kindness and compassion."
- Beauty and the Beast
Compassion
"Selflessness is the most beautiful trait one can possess."
- Beauty and the Beast
Compassion
"A kind heart can bring light to the darkest of places."
- Beauty and the Beast
Compassion
"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."
- Flora Edwards
Compassion