# Quote — Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

> Completely egocentric, unable to relate, empathize or identify and consisting of a vast, pervasive, diffuse sexuality, the male is psychically passive. He hates his passivity, so he projects it onto women, defines the male as active, then sets out to prove that he is ("prove he's a Man"). His main means of attempting to prove it is screwing (Big Man with a Big Dick tearing off a Big Piece). Since he's attempting to prove an error, he must "prove" it again and again. Screwing, then, is a desperate, compulsive attempt to prove he's not passive, not a woman; but he is passive and does want to be a woman.

- Author: [Valerie Solanas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas.md)
- Book: [SCUM Manifesto](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto.md)
- Page: 2
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas#SCUM_MANIFESTO_(1967)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto/completely-egocentric-unable

## More from this book

> "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 eliminate the male sex.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto/life-in-this.md)

> A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while 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. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto/a-true-community.md)

> Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather 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, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto/love-cant-flourish.md)