Sally Kempton Quotes

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

“The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.”

“Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.”

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

“To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.”

“America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.”

“To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.”

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

“By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.”

“When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew.”