44 Quotes by Shulamith Firestone

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

...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.)

A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.

The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.

The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.

Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.

...new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.

It is only the failure of my plots I fear.

Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.