sophie

“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)

“. Love can’t
flourish in a society based on money and meaningless
work; it requires complete economic as
well as personal freedom, leisure time and the
opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing,
emotionally satisfying activities which, when
shared with those you respect, lead to deep
friendship. Our “society” provides practically no
opportunity to engage in such activities.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”
― S.E. Hinton

“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