“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
“What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.”
