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There are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves -- along with the renewed courage to try them out.

Source: Poetry Is Not a Luxury, Chrysalsis, 1977.
-- Audre Lorde, (Feb 18 1934-1992), US poet, feminist; She won a 1989 American Book Award for A Burst of Light; poet laureate, NY, 1991.

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