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

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

Shulamith Firestone

#Culture Quotes #And Love Quotes #Structure Quotes

“If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.”
“When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.”

Source : Nora Raleigh Baskin (2010). “Anything But Typical”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.”
“I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.”
“There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.”
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.”
“Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.”

Source : "Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers '87" edited by F. J. Duarte, (p. 1165), 1988.
“My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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