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4.49 AVERAGE
This was a great read. Audre makes incredible points about the expectations placed on folks who have breast cancer. Very eye opening.
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Really incredible and beautiful reading. Prompted a lot of thoughts about mortality, the relationship between health and appearances for women, and cancer as a whole.
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Graphic: Cancer, Death, Misogyny, Racism, Medical content
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"There is so much false spirituality around us these days, calling itself goddess-worship or "the way." It is false because too cheaply bought and little understood, but most of all because it does not lend, but rather saps, that energy we need to do our work. So when an example of the real power of healing love comes along such as this one, it is difficult to use the same words to talk about it because so many of our best and most erotic words have been so cheapened.
Perhaps I can say this all more simply; I say the love of women healed me."
"Like superficial spirituality, looking on the bright side of things is a euphemism used for obscuring certain realities of life, the open consideration of which might prove threatening or dangerous to the status quo."
"I am talking here about the need for every woman to live a considered life. The necessity for that consideration grows and deepens as one faces directly one's own mortality and death. Self scrutiny and an evaluation of our own lives, while painful, can be rewarding and strengthening journeys toward a deeper self. For as we open ourselves more and more to the genuine conditions of our lives, women become less and less willing to tolerate those conditions unaltered, or to passively accept external and destructive controls over our lives and our identities."
Perhaps I can say this all more simply; I say the love of women healed me."
"Like superficial spirituality, looking on the bright side of things is a euphemism used for obscuring certain realities of life, the open consideration of which might prove threatening or dangerous to the status quo."
"I am talking here about the need for every woman to live a considered life. The necessity for that consideration grows and deepens as one faces directly one's own mortality and death. Self scrutiny and an evaluation of our own lives, while painful, can be rewarding and strengthening journeys toward a deeper self. For as we open ourselves more and more to the genuine conditions of our lives, women become less and less willing to tolerate those conditions unaltered, or to passively accept external and destructive controls over our lives and our identities."
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informative
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a tad wordy at the end but wow. This book is like a gift that kept giving. Ily Audre
“It’s looking around and knowing that this beauty is mine too…forever.”
“The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self revelation.” !!!
“It’s looking around and knowing that this beauty is mine too…forever.”
“The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self revelation.” !!!
I love how gorgeously and unapologetically queer, Black, and feminist these journals are!