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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.

Betty Friedan

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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Children Day Family Force People Responsibility Time Work
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Adventure Age Expectation Inspirational Joy Regard Sorrow Yourself
Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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Lose Men People Thinking Unity Women World
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
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Men Movement Politics Society Women
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
I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Love Myself Work
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
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
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
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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Absence Age Darkness Deep Defined Light Youth
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
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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Book Change Different History Live Myself Orthodox Set Women Writing
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
It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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Fear Head Realization Scare Voice Women
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Admit Burden Dominance Honesty Men

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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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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