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.
Shulamith FirestoneThe classic trap for any revolutionary is always, โWhat's your alternative?โ But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to reflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them.
Shulamith FirestoneThus 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...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.
Shulamith FirestoneWomen were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
Shulamith Firestonethe myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.
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