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?

the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

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.

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

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

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?