Audre Lorde

There is no reality, only perception.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

I don’t know how to drive.

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Failure is no accident.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.