Quotes About Firestone

Edison called Firestone "a tenderfoot," and predicted that, despite their agreement to wear old clothes for the duration of the trip, "Soon you'll be dressing up like a dude.

The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.

I can't imagine anybody who showed up at Firestone for the first time who felt like they knew it better than I did. For me to travel to Akron the first time, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't wait, I know every hole on this golf course. I know the big water tower with the Firestone ball on top, I grew up with this. Here it is! It's real!'

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

In the following reading of Firestone on the question of technology I suggest we do read her as flawed and as "failed," but that this is both a necessary condition of the well-known contradictions that inevitably beset the feminist movement more broadly, and that they are what Firestone told us to expect (and why).