28 quotes
There’s no good reason (and many bad reasons) colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators. (p30)
Men Explain Things to Me (2014)
Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. (p7)
Men Explain Things to Me (2014)
Inside the word "emergency" is "emerge"; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters. (p12)
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (2004)
Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (2004)
The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end. (p94)
Men Explain Things to Me (2014)
The revolutionary days I have been outlining are days in which hope is no longer fixed on the future: it becomes an electrifying force in the present. (p108)
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (2004)
The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (2004)
The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden—which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution.
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (2004)