Wildfire Quotes

“One of the cruelest crimes of patriarchy has been to teach us to project our thoughts into a future that will never come (getting together our vitae and our five-year-plans) or focusing us back into a past that is only memories of a present, keeping us unaware of the locus of our power in the present moment and effectively imprisoning us in time.”
― Sonia Johnson, Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution

“I look out upon the world men have made—their legislatures, courts, churches, schools, art, architecture, their politics, their economics—and I don't see anything I would have done as they have done it. Not one single thing. Their system does not reflect me at all, neither my mode of being in the world nor my world view; rather, it is inimical to all I love, all I desire, all I am. Its every aspect pains me to look at, to think about; it hurts me on all levels of my life; it is not my home.”
― Sonia Johnson, Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution

“I have decided not to be an accomplice in my own oppression any longer, never again to hand men weapons with which to kill me.”
― Sonia Johnson, Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution

“Every time we lobbied them for the right to choose whether or not we will have children, we acknowledged that men owned us.”
― Sonia Johnson, Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution

“The instant enough of us detach from patriarchy and stop facilitating it, that is the instant tyranny will cease.”
― Sonia Johnson, Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution

“One of the most insistent messages from my inner voice in the last few years reaffirms the feminist revelation that among the myriad hoaxes of men, the biggest and most basic is what we are socialized to perceive as real.”
― Sonia Johnson, Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution