Politics Quotes

"Patriarchal systems profit from keeping women dependent and diminished."

"The prison industrial complex, like slavery, is profitable."

"Punishment and the structures of punishment have always been central to the US political economy."

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"Native peoples are the solutions, not the problem."

"Motherhood is the one thing women were invented for, according to most male writers."

"What has happened to women in the twentieth century is not a revolution but a rip-off."

"Every woman knows that her life has been shaped and regulated by sexual politics."

"The fact is that feminist ideology, even in its best and most developed form, is not rational."

"The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power."

"Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a matter of politics."

"The act of loving another person is political."

"The personal is always political; our private choices shape the world."

"The act of naming is a political act; it determines what we see and what we ignore."

"The personal testimony is a form of political power."

"The most important thing is not to abandon our critique of the system."

"Democracy requires constant vigilance and participation."

"The personal is political."

"The feminine mystique tells women that fulfillment comes only through domesticity."

"Women's magazines sell a false image of happiness through consumption."

"The feminine mystique teaches women to abandon their own aspirations."

"The personal is political."

"Black and lesbian and woman—all three have been ways of being on the outside of power."

"Globalization is not about universal interconnection; it is about economic domination."

"Corporate globalisation is not about bringing the world together, it is about making it a market."

"The fossil fuel economy is unsustainable and unjust."

"Economics is supposed to serve life, not life serve economics."

"The dominant culture mistakes profit for progress."

"The corporate takeover of agriculture is a crime against humanity."

"Economic growth at the expense of all else is insanity."