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Does my sexiness offend you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance as if I have diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? MAYA ANGELOU

Sheri Winston • Succulent SexCraft: Your Hands-On Guide to Erotic Play & Practice

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is ... See more

As women, we need to examine the ways in which our world can be truly different. I am speaking here of the necessity for reassessing the quality of all the aspects of our lives and of our work, and of how we move toward and through them

Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge.

Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project

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Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard • 2 highlights

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Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs upon the reasons they are dying.

Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

And it’s not that there are no individuals who are nationalists, or racists, but that the taking of a state position against nationalism, against racism is what makes it possible for a society like this to function. And of course the next step in that process must be the personal element. I don’t see anyone attempting or even suggesting this phase,

Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

For we have, built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression, and these must be altered at the same time as we alter the living conditions which are a result of those structures. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.