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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

Betty Friedan

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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Academic Brilliant College Graduation Love Myself Newspaper Quite
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
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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Blame Divorce Increase Justice Marriage Percent Reason Role Sex
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
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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Academic Active Decision Easy Education Enough Myself Top World
I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Love Myself Work
Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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Beginning Break Feminism Finding Home Mom Mystery People Stop Wife Women
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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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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