"Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the
grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of
difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but
seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can
spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency
become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of different
strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of
being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to
act where there are no charters."
Amazing essay by Audre Lorde:
http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2010/03/radical-feminist-audre-lordes-famous.html
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