The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer … - Shulamith Firestone

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I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N. C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.

Shulamith Firestone

The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.

Begun, Class, Grounds, Humanity, Pragmatic, Sex

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In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

Boycott, Dream, Girl, Liberation, Smile, Women

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Evolved, Given, Given Up, Power, Struggle

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

Business, Class, Order, Species, Women

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be,. . . not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

Class, Differences, Elimination, Male, Privilege, Sex

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

Conditions, Cultural, Knowing, Males, Tools, Women