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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

Betty Friedan

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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College Image Myself Professional School
Aging will create the music of the coming century.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Age Century Creation Music One Liner
I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Desire Known Mom Myself Ordinary
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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Class Man Moral Myself Object Spiritual Women
By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Abortion Choice Essential Myself Necessary Women
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Children Dreams Freedom Goals Guilty Herself Husband Reality Talk Woman
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
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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Equality Hard Men Movie Need Partner Thinking Women
Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Age Lost Opportunity Stage Strength Youth
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Freedom Inspirational Women Women Empowerment
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
BETTY FRIEDAN

Children Family Happiness Home Husband Ignorance Longer Silence Voice Woman
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Men Movement Politics Society Women
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Alive Burying Feminism History Lost Youth Millions Mystique Succeeded Women
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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Creative Equality Find Herself Know Man Person Way Women
life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Beyond Life Live Men Purpose Satisfaction True Women
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Cleaning Sex Shining Women

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