Consciousness Quote by Shulamith Firestone

“No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.” quote by Shulamith Firestone — Download Open image

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

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[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…

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the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So…

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

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“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)”

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

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We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But unless women also use the Revolution to further their own interests as well as everyone else's, unless they make it consistently clear that all help given now is expected to be returned, both now and after the Revolution,…

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

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

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

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The personal is political.

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

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

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