Valerie Solanas > Quotes

“The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes,
make music -- all with love. In other words, create a magic world.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Every man, deep down, knows he's a worthless piece of shit.”
― Valerie Solanas

“A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Eaten up with guilt, shame, fears and insecurities and obtaining, if he's lucky, a barely perceptible physical feeling, the male is, nonetheless, obsessed with screwing; he'll swim a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed hag, and, further, pay for the opportunity. Why? Relieving physical tension isn't the answer, as masturbation suffices for that. It's not ego satisfaction; that doesn't explain screwing corpses and babies.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what ?Surely not pleasure.”
― Valerie Solanas

“SCUM will become members of the unwork force, the fuck-up force; they will get jobs of various kinds and unwork... SCUM office and factory workers, in addition to fucking up their work, will secretly destroy equipment. SCUM will unwork at a job until fired, then get a new job to unwork at.”
― Valerie Solanas

“If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“There's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws, or leaders.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“A true community consists of individuals -- not mere species members, not couples --
respecting each others individuality and privacy, at the same time interacting with each other
mentally and emotionally -- free spirits in free relation to each other -- and co-operating with
each other to achieve common ends.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the unknowledgeable ones, and besides, the male knows that an enlightened, aware female population will mean the end of him. The healthy, conceited female wants the company of equals whom she can respect and groove on; the male and the sick, insecure, unself-confident male female crave the company of worms.”
― Valerie Solanas

“Dropping out is not the answer; fucking-up is.”
― Valerie Solanas

“Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more
mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male “culture”, in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“... those females least embedded in male “culture,” the least nice, those crass and simple souls who reduce fucking to fucking, who are too childish for the grown-up world of suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby shit, too selfish to raise kids and husbands, too uncivilized to give a shit for anyone’s opinion of them, too arrogant to respect Daddy, […] in short, those who, by the standards of our “culture” are SCUM … these females are cool and relatively cerebral and skirting asexuality.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“No genuine social revolution can be accomplished by the male, as the male on top wants the status quo, and all the male on the bottom wants is to be the male on top.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“BONGI: Very fucky world we live in. My only consolation’s that I’m me – vivacious, dynamic, single and a queer.”
― Valerie Solanas, Up Your Ass

“it’s not enough to do good; to save their worthless asses men must also avoid evil”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Although he wants to be an individual,
the male is scared of anything in himself
that is the slightest bit different from other men;
it causes him to suspect he’s not really a “Man"...”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Daddy’s Girl, passive, adaptable, respectful of and in awe of the male, allows him to impose his hideously dull chatter on her. This is not too difficult for her, as the tension and anxiety, the lack of cool, the insecurity and self-doubt, the unsureness of her own feelings and sensations that Daddy instilled in her make her perceptions superficial and render her unable to see that the male’s babble is a babble; like the aesthete “appreciating” the blob that’s labelled “Great Art”, she believes she’s grooving on what bores the shit out of her. Not only does she permit his babble to dominate, she adapts her own “conversation” accordingly.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Every man, deep down, knows he'a a piece of shit.”
― Valerie Solanas

“Also, the problem of mental illness will never be solved while the male maintains control, because first, men have a vested interest in it—only females who have very few of their marbles will allow males the slightest bit of control over anything, and second, the male cannot admit to the role that fatherhood plays in causing mental illness.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“The purpose of “higher” education is not to educate but to exclude as many as possible from the various professions”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“O yüzden çözüm kadınları özgürleştirecek olan para-iş sisteminin tamamen ortadan kaldırılmasıdır; erkeklerle iktisadi eşitlik sağlanması değil.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“GINGER: The hand that rocks the craddle rules the world.
BONGI: That's a slick little maxim — while the hand's rocking the craddle it won't be rocking the boat.”
― Valerie Solanas, Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime, & A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain to the Leisure Class

“GINGER. He and I established the most wonderful rapport. I think he's infatuated with me; he kept grabbing my ass and telling me how different I am. I think he senses the rebel in me. I've always been in rebellion ever since I was a kid. I remember how whenever my father's tell me to pick my toys up I'd stamp my foot and say "No" twice before picking them up. Oh, I was a mean one. My latest rebellion is my childhood religion; I've just rebelled against that. I used to be High Episcopalian.
BONGI. What're you now?
GINGER. Low Epicsopalian.”
― Valerie Solanas, Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime, & A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain to the Leisure Class

“Yüksek" eğitimin amacı eğitmek değil, mümkün olduğunca fazla sayıda insanı çeşitli mesleklerden dışlamaktır.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto