“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?”

— Audre Lorde

"The Uses of Anger"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

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writer and activist 1934–1992

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