"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
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage