Monday Ménage: Power. Nine Women. New System.

Crenshaw. Ginsburg. Milne.

 

It’s not about supplication, it’s about power. It’s not about asking, it’s about demanding. It’s not about convincing those who are currently in power, it’s about changing the very face of power itself. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw.

 

When I’m sometimes asked ‘When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?’ and my answer is: ‘When there are nine.’ People are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

 

Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and discriminated against, it’s not OK to ignore the needs of future generations, it’s not OK to wreck this extraordinary, beautiful, fragile planetary environment that sustains us – our Mother Earth. Christine Milne.