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

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

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

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

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?

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

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.