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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.

Betty Friedan

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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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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I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.
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Age Crucial Differences Discover Feel Image Know Ourselves People Society
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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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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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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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Destroy Discrimination Feminist Image Old Prejudice Woman
Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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…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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There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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