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Lorde on Difference and Survival

Lorde on Difference and Survival: verified wording, primary-work location, historical context, and a source-bounded explanation of its meaning.

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The future of our earth may depend upon the ability of all women to identify and develop new definitions of power.

Audre Lorde · Sister Outsider excerpts

Quote record

Author

Audre Lorde

Source

Sister Outsider excerpts

Chapter / location

Sister Outsider, Age, Race, Class, and Sex, p. 123

Tradition

feminist-philosophy · audre-lorde · lorde · difference · survival

Source information

From Sister Outsider excerpts, Sister Outsider, Age, Race, Class, and Sex, p. 123.

Translation

English translation; consult the named source edition for the original wording.

Context

Read the contextual commentary in this archive entry.

Interpretation

Lorde on Difference and Survival: verified wording, primary-work location, historical context, and a source-bounded explanation of its meaning.

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Quote

“The future of our earth may depend upon the ability of all women to identify and develop new definitions of power.”

Author

The evidence route for Lorde on Difference and Survival begins with Sister Outsider excerpts and Feminist Philosophy. The query “lorde on difference and survival” remains distinct from The Coloniality Of Gender and What Is Gender Equality, which tests a neighboring mechanism rather than repeating this page.

Source

The cited location is Sister Outsider, Age, Race, Class, and Sex, p. 123 in Sister Outsider excerpts. Readers using a different edition should verify pagination and punctuation against that edition; the linked source or publisher record provides the documentary trail.

Context

Lorde’s essay “Age, Race, Class, and Sex” argues that unexamined differences and hierarchy weaken movements facing planetary and political danger.

On Lorde on Difference and Survival, the controlling intent is “lorde on difference and survival.” Sister Outsider excerpts and Feminist Philosophy establish the documentary frame, whereas The Coloniality Of Gender and What Is Gender Equality mark the closest points of contrast or application.

Meaning

The line connects survival to redefining power as creative and shared capacity rather than domination. “All women” is an invitation to coalition that must preserve, not erase, differences.

A reader researching “lorde on difference and survival” should verify Lorde on Difference and Survival through Sister Outsider excerpts and Feminist Philosophy. The relation to The Coloniality Of Gender and What Is Gender Equality is deliberately narrower: it opens a next question without importing that page’s answer.

The scope test for Lorde on Difference and Survival is whether the evidence directly addresses “lorde on difference and survival.” Sister Outsider excerpts and Feminist Philosophy support that test; The Coloniality Of Gender and What Is Gender Equality expose where a related concept may produce a different judgment.

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2 scholarly sources

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Quality check completed 2026-08-25

Based on 2 scholarly sourcesLast updated 2026-08-25