The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
Interpretation
Women reclaiming control over their bodies is more transformative for society than workers taking control of production.
Adrienne Rich argues that the empowerment of women through bodily autonomy is a revolutionary force that can bring about significant societal changes. This notion suggests that personal freedom and self-determination are foundational to broader societal progress, emphasizing that control over one's body is integral to creating a just and equitable society.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about women's rights at a rally.
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'β
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
Revolution is usually a bloody affair. Our Revolution of 1911 did not shed much blood because our people are a peace-loving people. This peace-loving quality is the greatest virtue of the Chinese.
Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes
When the world is predictable you need smart people. _x000D_ When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.
I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change
Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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