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SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012

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Shulamith Firestone

Canadian born US feminist scholar, activist and writer

1945–2012

6 quotes, most often on Women and Love.

Self-regulation is the basis of freedom, and dependence the origin of inequality.
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 4, p. 97
- Freedom
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126
- Love
- Women
Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126
- Love
The goals of feminism can never be achieved through evolution, but only through revolution. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 2, p. 31
- Power
- Women
Most revolutionary movements are unable to practise among themselves what they preach. Strong leadership cults, factionalism, ‘ego-tripping’, backbiting are the rule rather than the exception.
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 2, p. 39
- Politics
Because class oppression of women and children is couched in the phraseology of “cute” it is much harder to fight than open oppression.
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 4
- Children
- Women

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