Barbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change. Read full biography of Barbara Deming →
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that... →
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if... →
The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
There should be no censorship of mail.
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should... →
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in... →
Barbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.