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
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.
I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry, the
I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.
I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.
In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness . . . that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.
It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."
What we resist persists.
I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.
As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.
I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.
people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.
The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.
The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.
Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.