Sonya

“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialised to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

The fact that we are here and that I speak now these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilises us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

“There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Living a self-conscious life, under the pressure of time, I work with the consciousness of death at my shoulder, not constantly, but often enough to leave a mark upon all my life's decisions and actions. And it does not matter whether this death comes next week or thirty years from now, this consciousness gives my life another breadth. It helps shape the words I speak, the way I love, my politics of action, the strength of my vision and purpose, the depth of my appreciation of living.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals