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

Betty Friedan

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.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Book Change Different History Live Myself Orthodox Set Women Writing
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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Creative Equality Find Herself Know Man Person Way Women
There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.
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Children Control Evidence Harm Health Home Mother
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
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
Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Age Century Creation Music One Liner
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
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
Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Age Lost Opportunity Stage Strength Youth
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
I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Desire Known Mom Myself Ordinary
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound 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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Acceptance Need Old Way Yourself
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Adventure Old One Liner Perspective Problem
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
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

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