Sonia Johnson Quotes (12 Quotes)

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.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

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.

What we resist persists.

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors the longing for justice is the sword I carry, the.

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

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness . . . that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.