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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.

Betty Friedan

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
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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This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
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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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…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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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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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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