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This job offers broad opportunity for travel—around and around and around the block. And to think—some girls settle for Europe.

— Valerie Solanas A Young Girl's Primer (1966)

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The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.

SCUM MANIFESTO (1967)

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

SCUM MANIFESTO (1967)

The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.

SCUM MANIFESTO (1967)

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.

SCUM MANIFESTO (1967)

The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.

SCUM MANIFESTO (1967)

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In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path.

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All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.

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