Sheila Rowbotham Quotes

• 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, Want, Enough

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

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

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

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Power, Reality, Hands

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• the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  People, Whole

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• Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Social, Structure, Social Structure

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• 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

  Self, Order, Speaking Up

  Sheila Rowbotham (1999). “Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Feminism, Defiance

  1972 Women, Resistance and Revolution, ch.1.

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• 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

  Mean, People, Language

  Sheila Rowbotham (1999). “Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• 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

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

  Sheila Rowbotham

  People, Choices, Becoming

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

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Men, Curls, Nerves

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