List of Shulamith Firestone Quotes

...he Will Go To His Grave Feeling Cheated, Never Realizing That There Isn't Much Difference Between One Woman And The Other, That It Is The Loving That Creates The Difference.

The Bar Is The Male Kingdom. For Centuries It Was The Bastion Of Male Privilege, The Gathering Place For Men Away From Their Women, A Place Where Men Could Go To Freely Indulge In The Bull Session.

The 'natural' Is Not Necessarily A 'human' Value.

It Is Only After We Have Integrated The Dark Side Of The Moon Into Our World View That We Can Begin To Talk Seriously Of Universal Culture.

The Division Yin And Yang Pervades All Culture, History, Economics, Nature Itself; Modern Western Versions Of Sex Discrimination Are Only The Most Recent Layer.

The 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.

Emancipated' Women Found Out That The Honesty, Generosity, And Camaraderie Of Men Was A Lie.

The Classic Trap For Any Revolutionary Is Always, 'what's Your Alternative?

A 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.

No Matter How Many Levels Of Consciousness One Reaches, The Problem Always Goes Deeper.

...love Is Essentially A Much Simpler Phenomenon--it Becomes Complicated, Corrupted Or Obstructed By An Unequal Balance Of Power.

But In Psychoanalysis There Are No Unimportant Thoughts; There Are Only Thoughts That Pretend To Be Unimportant In Order To Not Be Told.