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… — 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, project its own image onto history. — 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
