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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.