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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

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!
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Equality Hard Men Movie Need Partner Thinking Women
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
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
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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Book Change Different History Live Myself Orthodox Set Women Writing
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Hereditary Magazine Myself Offend Women Writing
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
Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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Cross Feeling Feminine Herself Women
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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One Liner Patience Time Yourself
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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Enemy Fellow Men Victim Women
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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Competition Handicapped Man Pattern Profession Sex Slave 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
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
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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Alone Definition Growth Human Live Love Man Women Work
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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Ability Aware Crime Discrimination Early Energy Episode Life Major Mom Myself Point Sexual Shame
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Admit Burden Dominance Honesty Men
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

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.

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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.

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