If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.
Interpretation
If you cannot alter the situation around you, adjust how you view it instead.
This quote by Audre Lorde emphasizes the power of perception in the face of unchangeable circumstances. It suggests that while we may not have control over external reality, we can choose how we interpret and react to it, thereby influencing our experience and emotional state.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience and mental health.
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
I care very much about women and their progress. I didnβt go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didnβt come back
When the world is predictable you need smart people. _x000D_ When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
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