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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

…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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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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.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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