The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
Shulamith Firestone
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”
“...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”
“(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.”
“He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”
“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.”
“A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.”
“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.”
“To be worshiped is not freedom.”
“In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.”
“...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.”
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theoretical, radical-feminism
