Top 25 Shulamith Firestone Quotes (2024 Update)

Shulamith Firestone Quote: “The personal is political.”

1. “The personal is political.”

— Shulamith Firestone

Shulamith Firestone Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Shulamith Firestone

Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.”

3. “Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.”

4. “Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “To be worshiped is not freedom.”

5. “To be worshiped is not freedom.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world...”

6. “Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world...”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate – and I wish I could find one.”

7. “All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate – and I wish I could find one.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.”

8. “Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”

9. “If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.”

10. “But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.”

11. “Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.”

12. “Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.”

13. “No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!”

14. “The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”

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

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Emancipated’ women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.”

18. “Emancipated’ women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.”

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

19. “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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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects – if never erotic objects.”

20. “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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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.”

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

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort ‘belongs’ to her.”

22. “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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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”

23. “He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”

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

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

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.”

25. “Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.”

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

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

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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “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.”

27. “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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Shulamith Firestone Quote: “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?”

28. “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?”

— Shulamith Firestone

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