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

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

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

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

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

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.

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?