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1. "All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one." ~ Shulamith Firestone
2. "Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence." ~ Shulamith Firestone
3. "...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)" ~ Shulamith Firestone
4. "... cinsel siniflasmayi ve bunun aile yapisi içindeki derin köklerini düsünürsek, bugün dogan herhangi bir kisinin, egemenlik psikolojisinin ortadan kaldirildigini görebilmesi hemen hemen olanaksizdir." ~ Shulamith Firestone
5. "Demek ki kadinin baslangiçta ve sonraki ezilmesine yol açan sey dogurgan bedensel yapisidir." ~ Shulamith Firestone
6. "Tapilmak, özgür olmak demek degildir. Çünkü tapinma eylemi baska birisinin kafasinda olmaktir; o kafa da Erkek kafasidir. Böylece tarih boyunca, kültürün her evresi ve her türünde, kadinlar bedensel islevleri yüzünden ezilmislerdir." ~ Shulamith Firestone
7. "The patriarchal family was only the most recent in a string of 'primary' social organizations, all of which defined woman as a different species due to her unique childbearing capacity. The term family was first used by the Romans to denote a social unit the head of which ruled over wife, children, and slaves - under Roman law he was invested with the rights of life and death over them all; famulus means domestic slave, and familia is the total number of slaves belonging to one man." ~ Shulamith Firestone
8. "...the end goal of feminist revolution must be...not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally." ~ Shulamith Firestone
9. "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." ~ Shulamith Firestone
10. "...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power." ~ Shulamith Firestone
11. "He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies." ~ Shulamith Firestone
12. "A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved." ~ Shulamith Firestone
13. "(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity." ~ Shulamith Firestone
14. "Thus 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
15. "To be worshiped is not freedom." ~ Shulamith Firestone
16. "The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!" ~ Shulamith Firestone
17. "Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated." ~ Shulamith Firestone
18. "Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie." ~ Shulamith Firestone
19. "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." ~ Shulamith Firestone
20. "Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture." ~ Shulamith Firestone
21. "But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told." ~ Shulamith Firestone
22. "The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects." ~ Shulamith Firestone
23. "A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her." ~ Shulamith Firestone
24. "It is only the failure of my plots I fear." ~ Shulamith Firestone
25. "Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country." ~ Shulamith Firestone
26. "For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself." ~ Shulamith Firestone
27. "The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance." ~ Shulamith Firestone

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Nous sommes devenus lucides. Nous avons remplacé le dialogue par le communiqué."
Author: Albert Camus

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