Audre Lorde Quotes

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

It takes strength to show vulnerability.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

I'm not afraid to have my heart broken and go out and meet people.

For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know? Hard on the outside but soft on the inside.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.