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.

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"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever."

- Audre Lorde

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"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."

- Audre Lorde

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"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."

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"The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival."

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"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

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"We should never judge someone based on their appearance."

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"Beauty and ugliness are merely subjective labels. What matters is who we are inside."

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"When we see beyond appearances, we discover the true essence of a person."

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"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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