Audre Lorde Quotes

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

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• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Live
  • Home
  • Child

• The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Have
  • Ugliness

• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Society
  • Own

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Creativity
  • Same
  • Hat

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Active

• I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Career
  • Deaf

• I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Help
  • Game

• Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Year

• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Driving

• I'm not really into the fashion thing.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Fashion

• It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.

  

  John Catsimatidis

• My ideal weight is 205, actually.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

• If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Life
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