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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Freedom Inspirational Women Women Empowerment
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
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Alive Burying Feminism History Lost Youth Millions Mystique Succeeded Women
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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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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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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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Academic Brilliant College Graduation Love Myself Newspaper Quite
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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Capacity Evolution Feminism Fight Human Quite Simplicity State Stop 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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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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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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