Shulamith Firestone on women

Self-regulation is the basis of freedom, and dependence the origin of inequality.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Animals
• Men

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

• Beauty