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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.

Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Choice Complete Easy Live Yourself
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
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
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
Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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Cross Feeling Feminine Herself Women
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Freedom Inspirational Women Women Empowerment
Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Age Century Creation Music One Liner
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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Contribute Freedom Intelligence Love Nourish Women
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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Divorce Employment Equality Home Ideas Responsible Security Support Women Work World
Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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Lose Men People Thinking Unity Women World
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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Children Family Happiness Home Husband Ignorance Longer Silence Voice Woman
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
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Alive Burying Feminism History Lost Youth Millions Mystique Succeeded 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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Academic Brilliant College Graduation Love Myself Newspaper Quite
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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America Community Dependant Frustrate Frustrated Husband Leader Life Role Self Women
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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Editor Feminism Magazine Myself Realization Threatening

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