Occupation: Writer Birth: 1943
In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project….
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you..
Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective..
the so-called women's question is a whole-people question..
Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others..
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articula….
Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the….
Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them..
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women..
It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?.
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination..