“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.” — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.” — 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
“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.” — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.” — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.” — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“...new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems… — 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
