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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

Betty Friedan

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Believe Female Feminist Liberty Life Man Suppressed
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
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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Ability Children Frustration Goodness Husband Mom Understand
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Alive Burying Feminism History Lost Youth Millions Mystique Succeeded Women
When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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College Image Myself Professional School
I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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Acceptance Agony Decision Myself Straight Win
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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Beyond Life Live Men Purpose Satisfaction True Women
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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Bliss Fulfill Happiness Infinite Promise Strange
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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Earn Gamble Job Men Principal Support Women Work
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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Goodness Love Passionate Responsibility Shape Society Women
I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Love Myself Work
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
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Hereditary Magazine Myself Offend Women Writing
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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Fear Head Realization Scare Voice Women

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