Sheila Rowbotham Quotes

#1. Success and talent aren't even in the same neighborhood.

Jenny Trout

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

Sheila Rowbotham

#3. Know inside yourself that you're strong. It's the only weapon that matters, and no one can teach that to you.

Jean Brashear

#4. Rin-zai also says: "Spirit is formless, but it penetrates through the world in the ten directions."[FN#149] The Sixth Patriarch expresses the same idea more explicitly: "What creates the phenomena is Mind; what transcends all the phenomena is Buddha."[FN#150]

Kaiten Nukariya

#5. greatly. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Sheila Rowbotham

#7. Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.

Mark-Anthony Turnage

#8. The so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

Sheila Rowbotham

#9. Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

Sheila Rowbotham

#10. Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy.

Sheila Rowbotham

#11. Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human rights groups.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#12. So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.

Sanjay Kumar

#13. I have always appreciated vintage clothing, but after working on 'Call the Midwife' for six months, I love moving away from vintage in my day-to-day wear.

Jessica Raine

#14. 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?

Sheila Rowbotham

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

Sheila Rowbotham

#16. It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

Rufus Sewell

#17. Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

Dan Deacon

#18. The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

Marilyn Manson

#19. Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

Sheila Rowbotham

#20. 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.

Sheila Rowbotham

#21. Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

Sheila Rowbotham