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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

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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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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I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
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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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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.
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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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