Quote of the Day

"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you."

- Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde ( February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. Lorde identified issues of race, class, age and ageism, sex and sexuality and, later in her life, chronic illness and disability; the latter becoming more prominent in her later years as she lived with cancer. She wrote of all of these factors as fundamental to her experience of being a woman. She argued that, although differences in gender have received all the focus, it is essential that these other differences are also recognized and addressed.