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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.

Betty Friedan

I’m my age and I feel glorious.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Age Feeling Glorious Myself
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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Acceptance Age Expert Media Nurse Home Professional Public
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
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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Beginning Confront Enjoyment Feminine Photograph Stop Women
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Choice Complete Easy Live Yourself
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
If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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End Home Leaving Limitation Mom Responsibility Role Wife
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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Absence Age Darkness Deep Defined Light Youth
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
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
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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Goodness Love Passionate Responsibility Shape Society Women
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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Academic Brilliant College Graduation Love Myself Newspaper Quite
I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Desire Known Mom Myself Ordinary
Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Children Home Love Name Problem Work

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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