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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

Betty Friedan

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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Equality Hard Men Movie Need Partner Thinking Women
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
I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Love Myself Work
I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.
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Ability Children Frustration Goodness Husband Mom Understand
I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Desire Known Mom Myself Ordinary
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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Destroy Discrimination Feminist Image Old Prejudice Woman
Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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Alone Definition Growth Human Live Love Man Women Work
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
We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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Beginning Break Feminism Finding Home Mom Mystery People Stop Wife Women
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
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Men Movement Politics Society 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
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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Goodness Love Passionate Responsibility Shape Society Women
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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Competition Handicapped Man Pattern Profession Sex Slave Society Women
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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College Image Myself Professional School
Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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