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…

— Shulamith Firestone

the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs…

— Shulamith Firestone

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

— Shulamith Firestone

“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when…

— Shulamith Firestone

the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.

— Shulamith Firestone

We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But…

— Shulamith Firestone

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

— Shulamith Firestone

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they…

— Shulamith Firestone

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

— Shulamith Firestone

The personal is political.

— Shulamith Firestone

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

— Shulamith Firestone

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

— Shulamith Firestone

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

— Shulamith Firestone

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be…

— Shulamith Firestone

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic…

— Shulamith Firestone

“It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”

— Shulamith Firestone

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

— Shulamith Firestone

The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from…

— 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…

— Shulamith Firestone

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

— Shulamith Firestone

“...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

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

— Shulamith Firestone

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

— Shulamith Firestone

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

— Shulamith Firestone

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

— Shulamith Firestone