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Famous Quotes By Sheila Rowbotham

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Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. — Sheila Rowbotham

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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 means through which they conserve their supremacy. — Sheila Rowbotham

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The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our own cruel contradiction. One of the most compelling facts which can unite women and make us act is the overwhelming indignity or bitter hurt of being regarded as simply 'the other', 'an object', 'commodity', 'thing'. We act directly from a consciousness of the impossibility of loving or being loved without distortion. But we must still demand now the preconditions of what is impossible at the moment. It is a most disturbing dialectic, our praxis of pain. — Sheila Rowbotham

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The so-called women's question is a whole-people question. — Sheila Rowbotham

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Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others. — Sheila Rowbotham

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It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility of a truly democratic society in which every human being can be brave, responsible, thinking and diligent in the struggle to live at once freely and unselfishly. Such a democracy would be communism, and is beyond our present imagining. — Sheila Rowbotham

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Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective. — Sheila Rowbotham

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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? — Sheila Rowbotham

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The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking. — Sheila Rowbotham

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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 its own image onto history. — Sheila Rowbotham

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When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination. — Sheila Rowbotham

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There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women. — Sheila Rowbotham

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Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them. — Sheila Rowbotham