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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

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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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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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