"[O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives."
Lorde, Audre. “Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power.”
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1984. 53-59. (via
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