“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.” IfsRealStatesProcessGrowthChangeRaceHistoryTreeRevolutionEvidenceTraumaRingsCirclesInvisibleCardsLayersComposingTissuesCartsSwellingNew Growth Book:Flying Source: Flying
“It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.” WorldMayRealityMightAbleLastsHumanityPoliticsSexProcessWomenDealsRaceHalfRevolutionBearsAimWaveAccomplishDesertSexismRetiringHarshSubordinationSexual RevolutionHarsh Reality Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.” WellsMatterRealityPoliticalPoliticsSocialWomenTermConsciousnessEconomicRevolutionInvolvedStructureEnormousPsychologicalSexismSocial ChangeExposureAlteredEliminationImpliedSexual RevolutionReorganization Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.” RevolutionVictimOppressionChiefsPatriarchyHomosexualEmancipationSexual Revolution Author:Kate Millett
“With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.” FirstsNamesLostRevolutionMurderCommittedCrueltyExecutionPurging Book:Flying Source: Flying