#theoretical

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S. ↗

— John Pople

#better #chemistry #clearly #decision #england

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

...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

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

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#anything #assuredly #cannot #democracy #government

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it. ↗

— Ira Glass

#evidence #half-million #hear #i #know