stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
Audre LordeAll writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
Audre LordeFor each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling
Audre Lorde