Destroying the Joint Quotes

“Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and discriminated against, it's not OK to ignore the needs of future generations, it's not OK to wreck this extraordinary, beautiful, fragile planetary environment that sustains us - our Mother Earth.”
― Christine Milne, Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World

“We have to support each other, brothers and sisters. Start where you are, do what you can, with what you have. When you don’t know what to do, do anything. Don’t ask for your rights. That suggests someone else has the power to grant them. Demand your rights.”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Women seem to go through life always thinking they are not good enough. There will be a moment in our lives when we will be the prettiest, the thinnest and the happiest we’ll ever be, but we will never know when it is. I was in a supermarket once and I saw this skinny, withered old woman, maybe 75, flicking through a magazine called Slimmers, and I wanted to tap her on the shoulder and say, ‘When are you going to stop worrying? You are good enough.”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Dale Spender coined the ‘one third rule’ in her book Man-Made Language. As soon as women are: more than one third of the speakers at a conference; more than one third of the members of the house; more than a third of the authors on the review pages of the papers; or one-third the contribution to the conversations the impression is – for both genders – that women are taking over.1 In late 2012, Chrys Stevenson completed research into how women are represented in Australian newspapers and found, by her comprehensive byline count and content analysis, the percentage of stories written by women with women as the subject, quoting women or using women as an expert or in the photo is between 20% and 30%, similar to findings from separate investigations all over the world.2”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Our political institutions have absorbed the tactics of the tabloids like a giant sanitary product. The domination of spin, with political image managers intricately connected with media personnel, sees our political discussion operate as a subset of the corporate media, and our politicians strategising in much the same way as the media does: asking how do we push and prod and suck up the desires and frustrations of the electorate, transforming them into something that articulates the will of the powerful. It manufactures not just consent, but dissent and outrage and doubt, in a ceaseless production line of images. When the machinery jams, these interests become starkly visible. Jones’s”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Let’s get this clear up front: women deserve human rights because they are human and they deserve to play a part in political and civil governance because they are part of the polity. No other justification is needed.”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Materialism is also associated with more anti-social and self-centred behaviour. One of the effects of a materialistic disposition is a greater tendency to treat people as objects to be manipulated and used. Materialistic values conflict with making the world a better place and the desire to contribute to equality, justice and other aspects of civil society. Attitude surveys show that people highly focused on materialistic objectives show little concern for the wider world – they care less about protecting the environment and less about their fellow citizens.”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Economic activities that diminish the quality of the environment and increase pollution harm the communities that are supposed to benefit. Conversely, contact with the natural environment has been shown to reduce stress, improve children’s behaviour and increase wellbeing. Indeed, patients appear to recover faster from surgery when they are able to see plants, flowers and trees. Although we might like to think that the natural environment is a tool at our disposal, that we are entitled, as the Book of Genesis suggests, to ‘dominion’ over ‘all the earth’, we are in fact part of the natural world and, for better and for worse, inextricably linked to and deeply affected by it.”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Despite renewed questioning of our economic circumstances during the current global financial crisis, most of those in positions of influence still buy the orthodox line that there are no serious limits to our capacity to exploit the planet’s resources for our benefit; they ignore the reality that the economy is a sub-system of the environment. As”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Christina was an Aboriginal woman – a poor old gin – who shot her rapist in Heart-of-Darkness Queensland in 1907 and lived to tell the tale. Can you imagine it? Her life matters today because of who she was and what she did: she said I refuse to be your slave, I refuse to be raped, and I will resist, I will not give in, I will fight for my dignity as a human being and as a woman and if you try me then you will meet my wrath. They”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Feminism is about despising an idea. And the idea is that women are unequal to men. It is that they deserve or should expect the kind of sexism, misogyny and mistreatment that they receive. It is that they should receive this treatment and take it on the chin. It is that any woman who rejects this treatment will be met with aggressive, irrational and sometimes unintelligible scorn. When we are destroying the joint, we are calling out sexism and misogyny. When we are destroying the joint, we are helping establish gender equality. We are destroying the joint, because otherwise, we may destroy the rights women have fought hard to achieve.”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“I’m a feminist because each time I hear about an abhorrent action towards someone that is based on or influenced by their gender, it gives me courage to know that beyond just recognising something as wrong, people will call it out and try to make things right. I’m”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint

“Yes, I’d definitely be a career woman … actually, that’s funny because you would never call a man a “career man”.”
― Jane Caro, Destroying The Joint