Audre Lorde in her piece, “The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”, explains her experience at a conference and how this sparked this paper. She believes that patriarchy will never be dismantled if women of all differences don’t come together and stand up for each other’s rights. Women of color, lesbians, poor women, and women from third world countries were the identities I noticed she mentioned who she believes are often left from the mainstream Feminism.

She has this particular quote that I thought was effective in communicating her idea of feminsim:

“As women, we have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our dif-ferences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”