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

- Audre Lorde

"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

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Audre Lorde