sophie

“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

“The true artist is every
self-confident, healthy female, and in a female
society the only Art, the only Culture, will be
conceited, kookie, funkie females grooving on
each other and on everything else in the universe.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“but to insist that, as men or women, we
are fully one and not at all the other, is to have
rammed a dreadful and festering lie down the
throats of the race, is to have made both men and
women live with the dread, secret knowledge that
they are “unnatural” should men experience the
longing to be passive, and should women desire
to assert themselves. And now, in the age of space,
the lie can no longer sustain itself, can no longer
feed on the distraction caused by primitive need,
can no longer hold together a concept of civilized
life which is caving in on all sides”
― Vivian Gornick (Intro to S.C.U.M Manifesto)

“There is yet another reason for the male to
isolate himself: every man is an island. Trapped
inside himself, emotionally isolated, unable to
relate, the male has a horror of civilization, people, cities, situations requiring an ability to understand
and relate to people.

So, like a scared rabbit, he scurries off, dragging Daddy’s little asshole along
with him to the wilderness, the suburbs, or, in
the case of the “hippie”—he’s way out, Man!—all
the way out to the cow pasture where he can fuck and breed undisturbed and mess around with his beads and flute.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto