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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Betty Friedan

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
BETTY FRIEDAN

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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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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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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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It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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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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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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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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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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