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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Betty Friedan

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
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Adventure Old One Liner Perspective Problem
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Freedom Inspirational Women Women Empowerment
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 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
I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Desire Known Mom Myself Ordinary
Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Age Lost Opportunity Stage Strength Youth
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
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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Abortion Choice Essential Myself Necessary Women
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
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
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.
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Divorce Employment Equality Home Ideas Responsible Security Support Women Work World
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
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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Creative Equality Find Herself Know Man Person Way Women
I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
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

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

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