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Shulamith Firestone on Valentine's Day

1945–2012 Canada

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

The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

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

The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

To live without love in the end proves intolerable to men just as it does to women.

The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than childbearing, is the pivot of women's oppression today.

The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

Bliss in love is seldom the case: for every successful contemporary love experience, for every short period of enrichment, there are ten destructive love experiences, post-love ‘downs’ of much longer duration – often resulting in the destruction of the individual, or at least an emotional cynicism that makes it difficult or impossible ever to love again.

The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Shulamith Firestone (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.