Quotes from Sheila Rowbotham

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

It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility of a truly democratic society in which every human being can be brave, responsible, thinking and diligent in the struggle to live at once freely and unselfishly. Such a democracy would be communism, and is beyond our present imagining.

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.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

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?