Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the emp…

Audre Lorde
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care. ✨ Audre Lorde (2000). The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, p.318, W. W. Norton & Company
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care. ✨ Audre Lorde (2000). The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, p.318, W. W. Norton & Company

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