#liberation

A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#feminism #liberation #oppression #radical #equality

He knew it was necessary to drive the French out, but he had always imagined that this would be done gloriously, with thousands of men on horseback flashing their swords and calling upon Allah to aid them in their holy mission ... It was hard to see any connection between the splendid war of liberation and all this whispering and frowning. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#imagination

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. ↗

— Jean Genet

#ideology #interpretation #liberation #main #man

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#children #communication #liberation #reading #teaching

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman. ↗

— Corita Kent

#liberation #man #masculine #woman #women

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#female-liberation #feminism #iraq #islam #women

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#accepting #gossip #liberation #life

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#did #exist #give #injustices #interested

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#frankly #great #happen #i #know

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#get #liberation #life #out #point