“In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the second wave of the most important revolution in history. It's aim: overthrow of the oldest most rigid class/caste system in existence, the class system based on sex - a system consolidated over thousands of years, lending the archetypal male and female roles an undeserved legitimacy and seeming permanence.”

—  Shulamith Firestone, book The Dialectic of Sex

Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Two, "On American Feminism

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