The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.
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 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 Firestone