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?

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

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

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.

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

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

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

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.