Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission. by Sonia Johnson

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Sonia Johnson

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One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so.

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We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

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Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

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One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.

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We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

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Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights. by Sonia Johnson

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

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I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

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As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

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We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

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Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

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The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women. by Sonia Johnson

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

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So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

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Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how... by Sonia Johnson

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

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I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.

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Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.

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The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

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It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "... by Sonia Johnson

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

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In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human b... by Sonia Johnson

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

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I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.

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