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I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

Sonia Johnson
Orthodox, Backgrounds, Asks

In our patriarchal world, we are all 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.

Sonia Johnson
Men, Thinking, Order

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Sonia Johnson
Permission, Persons, Asks

Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.

Sonia Johnson
Thinking, Feelings, Brain
Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”

What we resist persists.

Sonia Johnson
Persistence, Persist
Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation”, Crossing Pr

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.

Sonia Johnson
Inspirational, Falling In Love, Wish

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

Sonia Johnson
Scary, Trying, Willing To Try
Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

Sonia Johnson
Strong, Trouble, Beats

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.

Sonia Johnson
Mean, Guiding Principles, Taught
Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books

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.

Sonia Johnson
Real, Ignorance, Blow
Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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