Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.” — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“...the end goal of feminist revolution must be...not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting,… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults.… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But unless women… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
“For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.” — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.” — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share
