Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnsonis an American feminist activist and writer. She was an outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendmentand in the late 1970s was publicly critical of the position of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which she was a member, against the proposed amendment. She eventually was excommunicated from the church for her activities. She went on to publish several radical feminist books and become a popular feminist speaker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth27 February 1936
CountryUnited States of America
Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.
We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so.
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.
The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.
Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.