"What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?"

--

Audre Lorde

#Faces Quotes #Oppression Quotes #Print Quotes

“Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.”
“Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.”
“How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition.”

Source : Herbie Brennan (2011). “Faerie Wars”, p.167, A&C Black
“Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.”
“A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.”
“Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”
“We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.”
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

You may also like:

Adrienne Rich
Poet
Alice Walker
Author
Angela Davis
Political Activist
Bell Hooks
Author
Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Scholar
James A. Baldwin
Novelist
Judith Butler
Philosopher
Patricia Hill Collins
Professor
Toni Morrison
Novelist