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• a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

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  Goal, Wife, Feminism

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• ...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

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  Love Is, Balance, Complicated

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• ...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.

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  Differences, Feelings, Realizing

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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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  Children, People, Childhood

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

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  Alternatives, Classic, Revolutionary

  Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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• Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

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  Honesty, Lying, Men

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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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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  Sex, Culture, Division

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.

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  Natural, Humans, Human Values

  Shulamith Firestone (2003). “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution”, p.20, Macmillan

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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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  Dark, Moon, Our World

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• 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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  Men, Indulge In, Alcohol

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