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“To say that we want wages for housework is to expose the fact that housework is already money for capital, that capital has made and makes money out of our cooking, smiling, fucking. At the same time, it shows that we have cooked, smiled, fucked throughout the years not because it was easier for us than for anybody else, but because we did not have any other choice. Our faces have become distorted from so much smiling, our feelings have got lost from so much loving, our oversexualization has left us completely desexualized.”

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Book:Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
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“C'è una differenza tra il soffrire perché qualcosa che abbiamo deciso di fare ha delle conseguenze dolorose ⎼ come affrontare la repressione, vedere le persone a cui teniamo soffrire ⎼ e il sacrificio di sé, che è fare qualcosa contro il proprio desiderio e la propria volontà, solo perché pensiamo sia un nostro dovere. Questo rende gli individui infelici e insoddisfatti. Il lavoro politico deve essere, invece, curativo. Deve darci forza, visione, rafforzare il nostro senso di solidarietà, e farci realizzare la nostra reciprocità. Essere in grado di politicizzare il nostro dolore, trasformarlo in una fonte di conoscenza, in qualcosa che ci connette ad altre persone - tutto questo ha un potere curativo.”

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“[A] woman, working fulltime in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.”

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Book:Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
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“In the name of "class struggle" and "the unified interest of the working class," the Left has always selected certain sectors of the working class as revolutionary subjects and condemned others to a merely supportive role in the struggles these sectors were waging.”

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Book:Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
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