Sonia Johnson Quotes

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

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

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

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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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People are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

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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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The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

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So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

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

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Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.

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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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