Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.