Shulamith Firestone Quotes

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• Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself,…
• It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of…
• The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!
• Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
• But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.
• In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And…
• The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.
• Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
• Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
• No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.
• a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just…
• To be worshiped is not freedom.
• (Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
• ...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.
• Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy…
• ...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the…
• He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.
• A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.
• Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
• All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

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