Sonia Johnson Quotes

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• 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 simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so.

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  Country, Sunday, Countries Of The World

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• 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 history.

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  Change, Success, Determination

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• Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

  Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”

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• I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.

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  Time, Admitting, Reason

  Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books

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• 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 need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

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  Knowing, Waiting, Feelings

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• 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 class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.

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  Men, Race, Radical Feminism

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

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  Mean, Names, Roots

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• 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 war that not only continues to this moment without the slightest abatement but intensifies hourly.

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  War, Men, Long

  Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”

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• As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

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  Sad, Normalcy, Pilots

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• We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

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  Earth, Littles, Adjusting

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

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  Rights, Risk, Civil Disobedience

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• Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

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  Believe, Men, Order

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• The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

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  Religious, Men, Religion

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• All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

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  Revolution, Spirit

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.

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  Religious, Air, Land

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• people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

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  Strong, People, Suffering

  Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books

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• Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

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  Thinking, Risk, Important

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

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  Fear, Heart

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

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  Home, Thinking, Firsts

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• Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

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  Quality, Language, Determine

  Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”

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• Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

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  People, Feminism, Eras

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• Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.

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  People, Assuming, Problem

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

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  Men, Thinking, Order

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• The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

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  Men, Crisis, Harder

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• I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

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  Orthodox, Backgrounds, Asks

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