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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.

Betty Friedan

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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Freedom Inspirational Women Women Empowerment
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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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.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Divorce Employment Equality Home Ideas Responsible Security Support Women Work World

By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.

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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.

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