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Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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