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Betty Friedan

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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America Community Dependant Frustrate Frustrated Husband Leader Life Role Self Women
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
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
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
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
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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Acceptance Age Expert Media Nurse Home Professional Public
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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Children Family Happiness Home Husband Ignorance Longer Silence Voice Woman
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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Adjust Discrimination Expect Girl Life Privilege Sex
[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
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Love Myself Work
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Cleaning Sex Shining Women
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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Beginning Confront Enjoyment Feminine Photograph Stop Women
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”
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Editor Feminism Magazine Myself Realization Threatening
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Men Movement Politics Society Women

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