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Betty Friedan

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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Class Man Moral Myself Object Spiritual Women
I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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Academic Active Decision Easy Education Enough Myself Top World
…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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Adjust Ambition Death Growth Slow Suffering Wife Women
Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Age Lost Opportunity Stage Strength Youth
Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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 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
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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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
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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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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
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Abortion Choice Essential Myself Necessary Women
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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