“The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.”

—  Valerie Solanas, book SCUM Manifesto

Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 5 (hyphen (not en- or em-dash) so in original).

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American radical feminist and writer. Attempted to assassin… 1936–1988

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