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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Betty Friedan

A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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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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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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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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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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