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 FirestoneRomanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
Shulamith FirestoneFeminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
Shulamith FirestoneThe separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.
Shulamith Firestonea revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
Shulamith FirestoneJust as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.
Shulamith Firestone