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Aging will create the music of the coming century.

Betty Friedan

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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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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I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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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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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’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Age Century Creation Music One Liner
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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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