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people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

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Sonia Johnson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: February 27
Politician
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Sonia Ann Johnson
People
Despite
Suffering
Strong

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I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
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The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.
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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.
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Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.
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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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Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.
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The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
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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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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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I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.
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It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
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It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have lifestyles.
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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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