re: We Can't Have a Feminist Future Without Abolishing the Family

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Feminist icons have not tried to hide their antipathy for the family unit:

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Helen Sullinger said, “We must work to destroy [marriage]… The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men… All of history must be rewritten in terms of oppression of women.”

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Mary Jo Bane said, “in order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.”

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Robin Morgan said “We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.”

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Linda Gordon said, “the nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.”

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