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Shulamith Firestone
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Why postulate a fundamental Hegelian concept of Otherness as the final explanation – and then carefully document the biological and historical circumstances that have pushed the class “women” into such a category – when one has never seriously considered the much simpler and more likely possibility that this fundamental dualism sprang from the sexual division itself?
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It is dangerous to feel sorry for one’s oppressor – women are especially prone to this failing – but I am tempted to do it in this case. Being unable to love is hell.
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The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects – if never erotic objects.
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A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort ‘belongs’ to her.
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Emancipated’ women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
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No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.
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The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.
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Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
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Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
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