"Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love."

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Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

Shulamith Firestone

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.”
“My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.”
“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.”
“I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.”
“Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.”
“No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.”
“It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.”
“Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.”

Source : "Dwight Henry: from New Orleans baker to Hollywood's rising star" by Jessica Holland, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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