I Am Not Just A Lesbian. I

Those Of Us Forged In The Crucibles Of Difference Know That Survival Is Not An Academic Skill.

When I Dare To Be Powerful - To Use My Strength In The Service Of My Vision, Then It Becomes Less And Less Important Whether I Am Afraid.

Your Silence Will Not Protect You.

For Each Of Us As Women, There Is A Dark Place Within, Where Hidden And Growing Our True Spirit Rises, Beautiful And Tough As Chestnut Stanchions Against Our Nightmare Of Weakness. Within These Deep Places, Each One Of Us Holds An Incredible Reserve Of Creativity And Power, Of Unexamined And Unrecorded Emotion And Feeling

Next Time, Ask: What's The Worst That Will Happen? Then Push Yourself A Little Further Than You Dare.