“Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare.”
"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
"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
Compassion
"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
- Tina Fey
Taking Risks
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks