"Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society."

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Source : Shulamith Firestone (2003). “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution”, p.61, Macmillan

Shulamith Firestone

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“Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.”

Source : Molly Elliot Seawell (1899). “The sprightly romance of Marsac”
“To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.”
“A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1957). “The Statesman”
“I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.”
“I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.375, U of Nebraska Press
“The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.”
“Whatever you do, do it from the heart”
“Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.”

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