Sonia Johnson Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Sonia Johnson

  People, Feelings, World

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• I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

  Sonia Johnson

  Orthodox, Backgrounds, Asks

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• In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

  Sonia Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Order

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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.

  Sonia Johnson

  Thinking, Feelings, Brain

  Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”

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• What we resist persists.

  Sonia Johnson

  Persistence, Persist

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

  Sonia Johnson

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Wish

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• It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

  Sonia Johnson

  Scary, Trying, Willing To Try

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

  Sonia Johnson

  Strong, Trouble, Beats

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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.

  Sonia Johnson

  Mean, Guiding Principles, Taught

  Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books

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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.

  Sonia Johnson

  Real, Ignorance, Blow

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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