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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

Betty Friedan

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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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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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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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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Believe Female Feminist Liberty Life Man Suppressed
Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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Fact Growth Mental Health Name Problem Simplicity 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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If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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Beyond Life Live Men Purpose Satisfaction True Women
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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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