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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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“The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.”

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Author:Shulamith Firestone

“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.”

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

Source: 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.”

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Book:THE DIALECTIC OF SEX

Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX

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

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