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Shulamith Firestone quotes: Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

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

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

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.

Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.

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

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: 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.

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 quotes: All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderateand I wish I could find one.

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: Love is essentially a much simpler phenomenonit becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.

Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.

Shulamith Firestone quotes: The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

Shulamith Firestone quotes: A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.

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 quotes: To be worshiped is not freedom.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

Shulamith Firestone quotes: The personal is political.

The personal is political.

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

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objectsif never erotic objects.

The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects
if never erotic objects.

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

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: 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.

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

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: It is only the failure of my plots I fear.

It is only the failure of my plots I fear.

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

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

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

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

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

Shulamith Firestone quotes: The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.

The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.