“A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more thanchildbearing, is the pivot of women's oppression today.”

— Shulamith Firestone, book The Dialectic of Sex

Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Six

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Feminist 1945–2012

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