#theoretical

The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#beauty

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

— Shulamith Firestone

#communication

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#love

...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.) ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#experience

To be worshiped is not freedom. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#freedom

...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. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#love

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

— Shulamith Firestone

#love

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#men

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#men

The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#men