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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Betty Friedan

I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.
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Ability Children Frustration Goodness Husband Mom Understand
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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Adjust Discrimination Expect Girl Life Privilege Sex
I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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Contribute Freedom Intelligence Love Nourish Women
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Adventure Age Expectation Inspirational Joy Regard Sorrow Yourself
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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Facilities Government Nursery Point Remark School Supermarket
While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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Academic Brilliant College Graduation Love Myself Newspaper Quite
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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Competition Handicapped Man Pattern Profession Sex Slave Society Women
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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Acceptance Need Old Way Yourself
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Choice Complete Easy Live Yourself
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Adventure Old One Liner Perspective Problem
I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Love Myself Work
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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Absence Age Darkness Deep Defined Light Youth
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
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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Lose Men People Thinking Unity Women World

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