Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
More Quotes from Selma James:
We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.Selma James
It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.
Selma James
Caring for others is accomplished by a dazzling array of skills in an endless variety of circumstances. As well as cooking, shopping, cleaning, laundering, planting, tending, harvesting for others, women comfort and guide, nurse and teach, arrange and advise, discipline and encourage, fight for and pacify. Taxing and exhausting under any circumstances, this service work, this emotional housework, is done both outside and inside the home.
Selma James
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Revolution Quotes, Truth QuotesBased on Keywords: non-participants
Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.
Kristin Davis
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
Donna Tartt
We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.
Tommy Thompson