Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

- Barbara Deming

What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we nee…

- Barbara Deming

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we…

- Barbara Deming

Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lo…

- Barbara Deming

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and enga…

- Barbara Deming

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that …

- Barbara Deming

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

- Barbara Deming

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles…

- Barbara Deming

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

- Barbara Deming