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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.

Betty Friedan

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.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Divorce Employment Equality Home Ideas Responsible Security Support Women Work World
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Admit Burden Dominance Honesty Men
[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 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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Beginning Call Dependent Feminism heavy Passive Sexuality Target Thinking Victim Women
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Cleaning Sex Shining Women
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
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
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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Beyond Life Live Men Purpose Satisfaction True Women
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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Diversity Feminism Freedom Goal Modern Myself Part Polarizes Stronger Thinking Way
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
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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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
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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Frivolous Life Live Reserve Right Satisfaction
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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Facilities Government Nursery Point Remark School Supermarket

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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