“for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.” SelfPoliticalSocialFeminismMovementToolsPossessionObligationReformRegulationSocial ReformSelf RegulationPolitical Movements Book:Essays in feminism Source: Essays in feminism
“Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.” ArtSciencePoliticalBeliefUnderstandingTheoryPromiseMake SensePsychoanalysisPhilosophicPolitical Theory Book:Women in Science: Then and Now Source: Women in Science: Then and Now
“How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.” PeopleNeedsMovingPoliticalMoralArmsMassRootsDifficultyCriticalPaceAppetiteComplaintsImperativesUnbearableDiscomfortPrevailingDominatingSnailInsurmountableCritical MassPersonal Needs Author:Vivian Gornick
“Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.” GivingEndsPainPoliticalDesireCertainPoliticsForceFearPoorStruggleSacrificeAmountOffersGiving UpJewEnormousDiscriminationRationalCrueltyOverwhelmingPrimitiveIrrationalStemThreateningInfantilePower Struggle Author:Vivian Gornick
