Sonia Johnson Quotes

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• It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."
• We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of…
• We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we…
• What we resist persists.
• Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women -…
• All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
• Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.
• How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because…
• One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of…
• In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness…
• There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a…
• It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
• What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
• One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women…
• Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
• A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong…
• I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
• I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.
• In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.
• The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

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