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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

Betty Friedan

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Children Home Love Name Problem Work
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Men Movement Politics Society Women
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
This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
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Divorce Employment Equality Home Ideas Responsible Security Support Women Work World
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 good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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Goodness Love Passionate Responsibility Shape Society Women
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Choice Complete Easy Live Yourself
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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Children Control Evidence Harm Health Home Mother
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
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Admit Burden Dominance Honesty Men
I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
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Bright Department Discrimination Education Encouragement Graduation Head Smart Thinking Yourself
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Cleaning Sex Shining Women
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Adventure Old One Liner Perspective Problem
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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Enemy Fellow Male Men Mystic Suffering Victim
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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Enemy Fellow Men Victim Women

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

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