• For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.

  Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992
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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world. by : Audre Lorde

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