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Shulamith Firestone was an American author known for her profound thoughts on women's liberation and socialism. Her works explored gender inequality and the impact of the capitalist system on women.

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“...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.)”

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

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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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“Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.”

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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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“It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

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

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

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“...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.”

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

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

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About the Author

Born: January 7, 1945
Died: August 28, 2012
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Quotes: 47

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