Shulamith Firestone Quotes About Culture
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(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
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Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
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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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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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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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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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The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.
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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.
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