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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

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.

Shulamith Firestone
Goal, Wife, Feminism
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

Shulamith Firestone
Love Is, Balance, Complicated
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.

Shulamith Firestone
Children, People, Childhood
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

...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.

Shulamith Firestone
Differences, Feelings, Realizing

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

Shulamith Firestone
Alternatives, Classic, Revolutionary
Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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

Shulamith Firestone
Honesty, Lying, Men
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.

Shulamith Firestone
Sex, Culture, Division
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.

Shulamith Firestone
Natural, Humans, Human Values
Shulamith Firestone (2003). “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution”, p.20, Macmillan

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.

Shulamith Firestone
Dark, Moon, Our World
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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.

Shulamith Firestone
Men, Indulge In, Alcohol

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