24 Quotes by Sally Kempton

The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.

It’s impossible to defeat an enemy who has an outpost in your head.

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly

Whether Kali seems terrifying, fascinating, or loving depends on our state of consciousness and our level of both emotional and spiritual development. But she always invites us to a radical form ego-transcendence.

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist

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

Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.