56 Quotes by Sonia Johnson

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

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.

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry, the

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."

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.