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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Betty Friedan

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Destroy Discrimination Feminist Image Old Prejudice Woman
Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Advice Business Empire Fortune Idea Life Offer Willing Power
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
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.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Enemy Fellow Male Men Mystic Suffering Victim
I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Hereditary Magazine Myself Offend Women Writing
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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Facilities Government Nursery Point Remark School Supermarket
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 wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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Frivolous Life Live Reserve Right Satisfaction
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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Beginning Call Dependent Feminism heavy Passive Sexuality Target Thinking 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
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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Academic Brilliant College Graduation Love Myself Newspaper Quite
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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Capacity Evolution Feminism Fight Human Quite Simplicity State Stop Women
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Adventure Age Expectation Inspirational Joy Regard Sorrow Yourself
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

Abortion Choice Essential Myself Necessary Women

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