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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

Betty Friedan

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Believe Female Feminist Liberty Life Man Suppressed
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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One Liner Patience Time Yourself
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Advice Business Empire Fortune Idea Life Offer Willing Power
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
It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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Fear Head Realization Scare Voice Women
I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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Blame Divorce Increase Justice Marriage Percent Reason Role Sex
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Admit Burden Dominance Honesty Men
I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
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Book Change Different History Live Myself Orthodox Set Women Writing
Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Age Lost Opportunity Stage Strength Youth
I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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Acceptance Agony Decision Myself Straight Win
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
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

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