44 Quotes by Shulamith Firestone

For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.

The personal is political.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that’s how deep it goes they don’t want to know.

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world...

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate – and I wish I could find one.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.