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> [(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/male-culture-was-and-is-parasitical-feeding-on-the-emotional-strength/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

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## More by Shulamith Firestone

> [ \[U\]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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/u-nless-oppressed-groups-stick-together-and-on-alliances-of-self/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/the-myth-of-childhood-happiness-flourishes-so-wildly-not-because-it/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/emancipated-women-found-out-that-the-honesty-generosity-and/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/childbirth-is-at-best-necessary-and-tolerable-it-is-not-fun-like/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/the-natural-is-not-necessarily-a-human-value/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But unless women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/we-should-keep-in-mind-that-revolutions-anywhere-are-always-glad-to/)

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> [“For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/for-the-real-issue-under-all-the-fights-about-other-women-is-the-man/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/men-are-thinking-writing-and-creating-because-women-were-pouring/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/a-fair-and-generous-woman-is-at-best-respected-but-seldom-loved/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [The personal is political.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/the-personal-is-political/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/all-men-are-selfish-brutal-and-inconsiderate-and-i-wish-i-could-find/)

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> [“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/believe-me-if-all-wives-whose-husbands-had-affairs-left-them-we-would/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/women-were-the-slave-class-that-maintained-the-species-in-order-to/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/but-in-psychoanalysis-there-are-no-unimportant-thoughts-there-are/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

> [Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/just-as-the-end-goal-of-socialist-revolution-was-not-only-the/)

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