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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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