Shulamith Firestone Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

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

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

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

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This is painful, no matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

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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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Love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon—it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

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

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

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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 universal culture.

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The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.

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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 loving that creates the difference.

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