44 Quotes by Shulamith Firestone

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

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.

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

...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.

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.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

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.