Quotes by Sally Kempton

“Its hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist”

“Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly”

“Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman”

“Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.”

“Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemys bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.”

“And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in womens relations with men there is a continual transfer of power, there is, continually, politics.”

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.

Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.