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

Betty Friedan

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
There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.
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Children Control Evidence Harm Health Home Mother
I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.
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Age Crucial Differences Discover Feel Image Know Ourselves People Society
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”
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Editor Feminism Magazine Myself Realization Threatening
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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Fact Growth Mental Health Name Problem Simplicity 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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Earn Gamble Job Men Principal Support Women Work
[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Believe Female Feminist Liberty Life Man Suppressed
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Choice Complete Easy Live Yourself
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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Equality Hard Men Movie Need Partner Thinking Women
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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One Liner Patience Time 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
American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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America Community Dependant Frustrate Frustrated Husband Leader Life Role Self Women
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Adventure Age Expectation Inspirational Joy Regard Sorrow Yourself
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Adventure Old One Liner Perspective Problem
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
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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Destroy Discrimination Feminist Image Old Prejudice Woman

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