Sally Kempton Quotes

1943–2023 United States

Sally Kempton (January 15, 1943–July 10, 2023), also known as Swami Durgananda, was an American swami, journalist, radical feminist, and meditation teacher.

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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Before It's Too Late: Helping Women in Controlling or Abusive Relationships (1995)

We can care about things without clinging to them.

When you give up partnership relationships you also give up a certain kind of intimacy. But you gain a lot of freedom, and you also experience a wider, less exclusive form of love.

Women's Liberation is finally only personal. It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Cutting Loose (1970)

Writing about Cutting Loose, quoted in Sara Davidson article

Cutting Loose (1970)

I knew the writing came from the place that’s the closest you can get to truth. But the downside was, I became a character in a public story that resembled mine but was a huge oversimplification of a complex life.

Cutting Loose (1970)

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

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When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women. Most men can’t really imagine “equality.” All they can imagine is having the existing power structure inverted.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sally Kempton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.