Sweet Freedom Quotes

“We are struggling to change the values and priorities of men alongside us, as well as the way they conduct themselves - in short, to change the world. All the while, we are fighting to assert our own interpretations of what we are doing and our own definitions of what we are, against the man-made versions, which tend to ridicule, belittle or ignore our efforts and achievements.”
― Anna Coote; Beatrix Campbell, Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation

“Feminism is unique as a political movement in that it sees itself both as the subject of change and the agency of change.”
― Anna Coote; Beatrix Campbell, Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation

“It is part of our condition as women today that none of us is genuinely liberated. It is a symptom of our subordination that we consistently underrate ourselves.”
― Anna Coote; Beatrix Campbell, Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation

“Women are excluded from the formation of policy and the execution of business. An intense war is waged against women, to degrade them as human beings, to deny their ideas and achievements, and to suppress their own perspectives on the world.”
― Anna Coote; Beatrix Campbell, Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation

“The idea of women as a reserve army of labour is double-sided, in a sense. Women are a spare resource for employers in times of expansion; they are also a spare resource for politicians to call upon in times of recession. When it ceases to be convenient to spend money on public services, responsibility is handed back to those two euphemisms for unpaid female labour, 'the community' and 'the family.”
― Anna Coote; Beatrix Campbell, Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation