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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.

Betty Friedan

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Alive Burying Feminism History Lost Youth Millions Mystique Succeeded 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
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
Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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Enemy Fellow Male Men Mystic Suffering Victim
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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Class Man Moral Myself Object Spiritual Women
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
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Admit Burden Dominance Honesty Men
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
I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Insult Male
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
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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Facilities Government Nursery Point Remark School Supermarket
Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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Children Day Family Force People Responsibility Time Work
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Men Movement Politics Society Women
If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Bright Department Discrimination Education Encouragement Graduation Head Smart Thinking Yourself
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
BETTY FRIEDAN

Equality Hard Men Movie Need Partner Thinking Women

life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.

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