Sheila Rowbotham

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no…

— Sheila Rowbotham

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because…

— Sheila Rowbotham

It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do…

— Sheila Rowbotham

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

— Sheila Rowbotham

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

— Sheila Rowbotham

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

— Sheila Rowbotham

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

— Sheila Rowbotham

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

— Sheila Rowbotham

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

— Sheila Rowbotham

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

— Sheila Rowbotham

“It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards…

— Sheila Rowbotham