It is only the failure of my plots I fear.

“Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.”

— Shulamith Firestone

“...new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from…

— Shulamith Firestone

“The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.”

— Shulamith Firestone

“A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.”

— Shulamith Firestone

“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.”

— Shulamith Firestone

“For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.”

— Shulamith Firestone

“...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

“Life plots elegantly.”

— Alice Randall

As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them,…

— Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.”

— A.M. Dean

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

— Aesop

“Plots are for dead people.”

— Anonymous

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'…

— Marisha Pessl

Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -…

— Rufus Wainwright

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies…

— John Sherman Cooper