Shireen

“Is this pain and despair that surround me a result of cancer, or has it just been released by cancer? I feel so unequal to what I always handled before, the abominations outside that echo the pain within.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“Sometimes despair sweeps across my consciousness like luna winds across a barren moonscape. Ironshod horses rage back and forth over every nerve.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“The only answer to death is the heat and confusion of living; the only dependable warmth is the warmth of the blood.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“If I can look directly at my life and my death without flinching I know there is nothing they can ever do to me again.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals