“There is some irony in the fact that children imagine that parents can do what they want, and parents imagine that children do. "When I grow up..." parallels "Oh to be a child again..."”

—  Shulamith Firestone , book The Dialectic of Sex

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

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