As it is now, we have sort of become a bit dependent on the situation and yet women of our country used to stand up and fight whatever was the problem and quite a number of times we succeeded.

I decided I will fight them to the last drop of my blood, and I will show them that women are going to bring about change in South Africa, and we did.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

I'm one of the lesbians who came out through the women's movement. And I don't mean I wouldn't have come out without a women's movement, but it's very hard to imagine the world without the women's liberation movement at this point. However, in my own history, that was the point. It was a time of tremendous intensity among women — women of all kinds. Women who had known they were lesbians all their lives, women who were then coming out, women who were then and have remained heterosexual. There was a kind of intensity around the politics that was very profound and passionate. It was very moving and very exciting to see women taking their strength and taking hold of each other's strength and bringing out the power in each other. ... The passion was political, and the politics was passionate. Yes, it was very sexual, and it was also a milieu and a time that was very political.

It makes you understand who we are. We fought during our work to change the mind.

Like it or not, we were built tough, Because we're woman.

Participated in movements to support women in his country.

The company of women made of him a lover of women and, to a certain extent, a womanizer."

We believed that the women’s struggle for equality was the ‘revolution within the revolution.’

C’est une femme,” said the chef de train again. “Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength.” He nodded so sagely that everyone suspected a personal experience of his own.

Extremely powerful and assertive women were able to dominate their husbands.

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

He fought her with full energy and intelligence, as she had wanted to be loved. (one: IN THE CORPORATE FORTRESS)