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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.

Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Choice Complete Easy Live Yourself
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
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
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Freedom Inspirational Women Women Empowerment
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
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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Adjust Discrimination Expect Girl Life Privilege Sex
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
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
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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Creative Equality Find Herself Know Man Person Way Women
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
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 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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Children Dreams Freedom Goals Guilty Herself Husband Reality Talk Woman
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
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
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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Children Family Happiness Home Husband Ignorance Longer Silence Voice Woman
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Cleaning Sex Shining Women

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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