# Quote — Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

> The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.

- Author: [Valerie Solanas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas.md)
- Book: [SCUM Manifesto](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto.md)
- Page: 5
- 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/the-male-is-just

## 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)