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Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
— 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
Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.
— Shulamith Firestone
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
— 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
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 of love.
— 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 her.
— Shulamith Firestone
The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!
— Shulamith Firestone
Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.
— Shulamith Firestone
Love is essentially a much simpler phenomenonit becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. — Shulamith Firestone
All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderateand I wish I could find one. — Shulamith Firestone
A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.
— Shulamith Firestone
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
— Marlon Brando
Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.
— Dianne Wiest
Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
— Shulamith Firestone
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
— Shulamith Firestone
People who report that they are happy have a common trait: they actively connect with friends and loved ones for an hour or two a day.
— Deepak Chopra
To be worshiped is not freedom.
— Shulamith Firestone
The personal is political.
— Shulamith Firestone
The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objectsif never erotic objects. — Shulamith Firestone
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
— Shulamith Firestone
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.
— Shulamith Firestone
For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.
— Shulamith Firestone
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.
— Shulamith Firestone
Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.
— Shulamith Firestone
Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is only the failure of my plots I fear.
— Shulamith Firestone
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
— Shulamith Firestone
No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.
— Shulamith Firestone
