Audre Lorde Quotes

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.

My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved.

There's nothing like being hugged or held or just anything as simple as that.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

I think women love a passionate love story.

You have to reinvent love.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

Love is just chemistry.

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.