"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival."

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Source : Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.130, Courier Dover Publications

Audre Lorde

#Believe Quotes #Caring Quotes #Self Quotes

“The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.”
“But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.”
“Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.”
“I think most of us secretly know â€“ and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say â€“ that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.”
“Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.”
“The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.”

Source : "A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Volume I". Book by John Mackinnon Robertson, 1906.
“Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.”
“To order space is to give it meaning.”

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