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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

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.
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Divorce Employment Equality Home Ideas Responsible Security Support Women Work World
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
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
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
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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One Liner Patience Time Yourself
Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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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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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.
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