Sonia Johnson Quotes

• 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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• Debemos recordar que una persona decidida puede marcar una diferencia significativa, y que un pequeño grupo de personas decididas puede cambiar el curso de la historia.

  Sonia Johnson

  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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  Inspiración, Honestidad, Integridad

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

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• No tengo tiempo" es la razón más frecuente para vivir vidas fraccionadas, perpetuamente sometidas a servidumbre, para no vivir plena o libremente. Porque el tiempo es vida, cuando decimos que no tenemos suficiente tiempo, estamos admitiendo que no tenemos suficiente vida.

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  Time, Admitting, Reason

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

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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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• 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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• 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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  Guerra, Hombres, Larga

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

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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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• 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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• 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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  Creer, Hombres, Orden

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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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  Religioso, Hombres, Religión

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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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• El espíritu del totalitarismo religioso está en el mundo; está en el aire mismo que respiramos hoy en esta tierra. Por todas partes están aquellos que afirman tener un rincón en la justicia, en el acceso directo a Dios ... Los fanáticos del mundo están en su apogeo.

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  Religious, Air, Land

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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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  Pensar, Riesgo, Importante

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

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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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• 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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• Obviamente, a los anti-ERA les hace cosquillas mi terrible experiencia porque demuestra que la ERA rompe familias. Cuando señalan que el feminismo es algo peligroso, me limito a decir que el matrimonio también es bastante precario.

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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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  Gente, Asumir, Problema

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

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• It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

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  Justice, Diversity, Social Justice

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

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• Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

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  Permission, Persons, Asks

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

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  Men, Crisis, Harder

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