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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Betty Friedan

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
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
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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Acceptance Need Old Way Yourself
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Hereditary Magazine Myself Offend Women Writing
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Cleaning Sex Shining Women
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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Cross Feeling Feminine Herself Women
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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Frivolous Life Live Reserve Right Satisfaction
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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Bright Department Discrimination Education Encouragement Graduation Head Smart Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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End Home Leaving Limitation Mom Responsibility Role Wife
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
Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Age Century Creation Music One Liner

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