Sheila Rowbotham quotes

Sheila Rowbotham quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

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“Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.”
-- Sheila Rowbotham

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“Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.”
-- Sheila Rowbotham

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“Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.”
-- Sheila Rowbotham

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“the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.”
-- Sheila Rowbotham

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

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“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

Source : Sheila Rowbotham (1999). “Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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“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 can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking.”
-- Sheila Rowbotham

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“Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy.”
-- Sheila Rowbotham

Source : Sheila Rowbotham (1999). “Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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

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