“Women have been allowed to achieve individuality only though their appearance.”

—  Shulamith Firestone , book The Dialectic of Sex

The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Women have been allowed to achieve individuality only though their appearance." by Shulamith Firestone?
Shulamith Firestone photo
Shulamith Firestone 20
Feminist 1945–2012

Related quotes

Charles Baudelaire photo

“I have always been astonished that women are allowed to enter churches. What talk can they have with God?”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

J'ai toujours été étonné qu'on laissât les femmes entrer dans les églises. Quelle conversation peuvent-elles avoir avec Dieu?
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)

Vladimir Lenin photo

“The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Collected Works, Vol. 28, pp. 180–182.
Collected Works

Albert Einstein photo

“The Jews as a group may be powerless, but the sum of the achievements of their individual members is everywhere considerable and telling, even though those achievements were made in the face of obstacles.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

affirmed on page 213 of The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
1930s, Why Do They Hate the Jews (1938)

Ayumi Hamasaki photo

“The lovers, appearing happy,
walk, holding hands.
Though it appears everything is perfect,
only they know the truth.”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

Appears
Lyrics, Loveppears

Ana Castillo photo

“Women Are Not Roses

Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.

Though rivers flow
women are not
rivers.

Women are not
roses
they are not oceans
or stars.

i would like to tell
her this but
i think she
already knows.”

Ana Castillo (1953) novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer

Source: Women Are Not Roses

“Major societal and individual enhancements are only achievable with extraordinary alteration of the thought process.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

2006

David Morrison photo

“I have set tangible goals against which I am willing to be judged. Ultimately, though, true and enduring progress in the status and security of women and girls will only be achieved through the collaborative efforts of women and men. There is a need, in my view, for some men to be reminded by male leaders and champions of change that violence towards women and girls is never acceptable and that their female colleagues deserve their trust and respect.”

David Morrison (1956) Australian army general

Address at the International Women's Day Conference (2013)

Alfred de Zayas photo

“Direct, participatory and responsive democracy has been shown to be conducive to achieving a more just world order. Only such an approach will allow progressing from predator societies to human rights oriented societies.”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

“Much more than periodic voting” – UN Independent Expert calls for more direct democracy worldwide http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20482&LangID=E.
2016, “Much more than periodic voting” – UN Independent Expert calls for more direct democracy worldwide

Jacques Ellul photo

“True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!”

Jacques Ellul book The Technological Society

Source: The Technological Society (1954), p. 139

Related topics