Sheila Rowbotham Professions : Writer Born : 1943 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Sheila Rowbotham 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? Sheila Rowbotham work-out enough want 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. Sheila Rowbotham speaking-up self order Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective. Sheila Rowbotham power hands reality 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. Sheila Rowbotham language mean people Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. Sheila Rowbotham feminism feminist men The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking. Sheila Rowbotham silence limits belief the so-called women's question is a whole-people question. Sheila Rowbotham whole people There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women. Sheila Rowbotham defiance feminism Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them. Sheila Rowbotham social-structure structure social Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others. Sheila Rowbotham becoming choices people When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination. Sheila Rowbotham curls nerves men Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
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