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, they will be sold out again and again.
To be worshiped is not freedom. - Shulamith Firestone
To be worshiped is not freedom.
- Shulamith Firestone
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle. - Shulamith Firestone
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society. - Shulamith Firestone
Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions. - Shulamith Firestone
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world. - Shulamith Firestone
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity. - Shulamith Firestone
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
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… - Shulamith Firestone
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…
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture. - Shulamith Firestone
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF! - Shulamith Firestone
The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!
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