Maelanie

“The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.”
― Audre Lorde

“People say that love and death are two common and universal human journeys. There is a difference though, love is more powerful and lasts longer. A body is taken only once but love can be given a thousand times. Ask how someone died the answer is finite, ask how they loved, the answer is infinite.”
― Jeffrey Seaver

“Do observe what is actually taking place within yourself and outside yourself in the competitive culture in which you live with its desire for power, position, prestige, name, success and all the rest of it - observe the achievements of which you are so proud, this whole field you call living in which there is conflict in every form of relationship, breeding hatred, antagonism, brutality and endless wars. This field, this life, is all we know, and being unable to understand the enormous battle of existence we are naturally afraid of it and find escape from it in all sorts of subtle ways. And we are frightened also of the unknown - frightened of death, frightened of what lies beyond tomorrow. So we are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there isno hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theo- logical concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I write for these women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence will save us, but it won't.”
― Audre Lorde