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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.

Betty Friedan

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
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
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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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.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Diversity Feminism Freedom Goal Modern Myself Part Polarizes Stronger Thinking Way
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
BETTY FRIEDAN

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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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