Shulamith Firestone - Women Quotes

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

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(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

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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 this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

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

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

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Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.

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

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Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

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Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

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