We are powerful because we have survived.

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"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

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"The youth of this generation have a greater capacity for obedience than any previous generation."

- Elder David A. Bednar

Strength

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

Strength

"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

Strength

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Strength

"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

Strength