We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another. - Barbara Deming
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
- 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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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 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 …
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
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…
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. - Barbara Deming
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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
Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles…
Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat. - Barbara Deming
Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.
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