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

Betty Friedan

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.
BETTY FRIEDAN

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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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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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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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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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