Sheila Rowbotham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Work Out #Want #Enough
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
-- Sheila Rowbotham

#Men #Feminist #Oppressed
Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.
-- Sheila Rowbotham

#Social #Structure #Values
Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.
-- Sheila Rowbotham

#People #Choices #Becoming
the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.
-- Sheila Rowbotham

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

#Reality #Power #Hands
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

#Self #Order #Speaking Up
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

#Silence #Limits #Belief
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

#Mean #People #Language
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.
-- Sheila Rowbotham

#Men #Nerves #Use

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