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Feminism, in truth, has a cyclical momentum all its own. In the historical interpretation we have espoused, feminism is the inevitable female response to the development of a technology capable of freeing women from the tyranny of their sexual-reproductive roles – both the fundamental biological condition itself, and the sexual class system built upon, and reinforcing, this biological condition.

— Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

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

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

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

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Self-regulation is the basis of freedom, and dependence the origin of inequality.

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The goals of feminism can never be achieved through evolution, but only through revolution. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

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