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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.

Betty Friedan

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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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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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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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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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We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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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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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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