Jacque Ni

“One often hears that the liberation of women cannot take place without the liberation of men. The cliché is true, up to a point. Women and men share the same ultimate aim: to gain genuine autonomy, which means participating in (and being let alone by) a society that is not based on alienation and repression. But the cliché is also dangerous, for it implicitly denies that there are stages in the struggle to liberate women. Like many clichés which are true, it disarms thoughts and pacifies rage. It encourages a passive and merely reformist view of the problem.”
― Susan Sontag, On Women

“Any serious program of liberating women must start from the premise that liberation is not just about equality (the liberal idea). It is about power. Women cannot be liberated without reducing the power of men. Their liberation not only means changing consciousness and social structure in ways that will transfer to women much of the power monopolized by men. The nature of the power itself will thereby change, since throughout history power has itself been defined in sexist terms.”
― Susan Sontag, On Women

“Any already "liberated" woman who complacently accepts her privileged situation participates in the oppression of other women.”
― Susan Sontag, On Women

“Look at me, I was beginning to to enjoy the sun again, the mountains, even life's problem, I was beginning to accept that the meaninglessness of life was no one's fault but mine.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die