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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.


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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.



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.



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.



Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.



Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.



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.



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.



(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.



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

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



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.





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