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"Laten we op zoek gaan naar 'vreugde' in plaats van naar eerlijk voedsel en schone lucht en een gezondere toekomst op een bewoonbare planeet! Alsof geluk volstaat om ons te beschermen tegen de gevolgen van winst-waanzin."
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"Life is too big for small dreams."

"Life is miraculous and love is the miracle."

"Life is not waiting for you. This moment is your life, so love it, live it, and enjoy it."

"Life itself is the journey of the mind toward the unknown infinite wilderness. Get lost."

"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!"

"Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away."

"Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one else has taken...yet."

"Life will be perfect if your expectations and responses to events are humble and perfect."

"Life is what you think about it."

"Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it."
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"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

"Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms."

"I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?"

"No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman."

"If you come as softlyAs wind within the treesYou may hear what I hearSee what sorrow sees.If you come as lightlyAs threading dewI will take you gladlyNor ask more of you.You may sit beside meSilent as a breathOnly those who stay deadShall remember death.And if you come I will be silentNor speak harsh words to you.I will not ask you why, now.Or how, or what you do.We shall sit here, softlyBeneath two different yearsAnd the rich earth between usShall drink our tears."

"When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, it's like looking at death: hard but possible. If you look at it directly without embracing it, then there is much less that you can ever be made to fear."

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

"Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our sisterhood and survivals, I urge you to tackle what is most difficult for us all, self-scrutiny of our complacencies, the idea that since each of us believes she is on the side of right, she need not examine her position."

"You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements."

"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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