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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate February 18, 1934

Zodiac Aquarius

Location New York City, New York

Country USA

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We were able to turn up the defensive pressure and we hit some key free throws down the stretch. This was one of those games we really needed.

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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

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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.

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My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.

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and when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

nor welcomed

but when we are silent

we are still afraid

So it is better to speak

remembering

we were never meant to survive

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

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