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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

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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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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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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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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and 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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