Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
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,… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
“It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
