#cellestine ware

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Radical feminism is working for the eradication of domination and elitism in all human relationships. This would make self-determiniation the ultimate good and require the downfall of society as we know it today.

Cellestine Ware

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Cellestine Ware

[blackscifimatters]

It is a man's world: Men and men's institutions define womanhood and sanction femininity. Women who fail to recognize and adopt the approved personality and behavior pattern will find themselves rebuked, scorned and pitied as failures.

Woman Power: the movement for women’s liberation (1970)

[blackscifimatters]

...that's how you become a radical--when you realize a problem is societal, and not individual...when you start fighting your own battles...

Heather Booth in Woman Power: the movement for women’s liberation (1970). According to Cellestine Ware, this quote is an ‘excellent illustration of the fusion of radicalism with feminism’.

[blackscifimatters]

Radical thinker Peter Cohon knows better: 'To live an alternative that is totally outside the alternatives of this culture is a profoundly political act'. For women, self-assertion is a profoundly political act.

Woman Power: the movement for women’s liberation (1970)

[blackscifimatters]

Each person is to occupy that space in this world which has been self-described, and the feminist movement, with varying degrees of intensity, is organizing itself to combat the obstacles to this actuality.

Woman Power: the movement for women’s liberation (1970)

[blackscifimatters]

Radical feminists are not interested in creating famous women: The avowed purpose of their revolutions is a society in 'which you don't have to be famous to be heard'.

Woman Power: the movement for women’s liberation (1970)

[blackscifimatters]

Confronting reality now means dropping indifference to others; it means stretching yourself to allow others living space.

Woman Power: the movement for women’s liberation (1970)