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.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

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

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

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.

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.