Firstly, read what Shulamith Firestone has to say. Secondly, recognize that this work was published in 1970. Thirdly, become grandly and righteously pissed off that women’s intellectual history is carefully hidden from them and thus, each generation is forced to start from scratch in the struggle to raise their consciousness
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – On Smiling, Shulamith Firestone
“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
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