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Because class oppression of women and children couched in the phraseology of "cute" it is much harder to fight than open oppression

— 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.

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)

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

The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

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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