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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.

Betty Friedan

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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Book Change Different History Live Myself Orthodox Set Women Writing
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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Enemy Fellow Men Victim Women
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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Bliss Fulfill Happiness Infinite Promise Strange
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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Alone Definition Growth Human Live Love Man Women Work
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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Adjust Discrimination Expect Girl Life Privilege Sex
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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Children Dreams Freedom Goals Guilty Herself Husband Reality Talk Woman
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Choice Complete Easy Live Yourself
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
[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
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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College Image Myself Professional School
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
I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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Acceptance Agony Decision Myself Straight Win
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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One Liner Patience Time Yourself
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Men Movement Politics Society Women

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