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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

Betty Friedan

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Cleaning Sex Shining Women
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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Adjust Discrimination Expect Girl Life Privilege Sex
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Freedom Inspirational Women Women Empowerment
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
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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Bright Department Discrimination Education Encouragement Graduation Head Smart Thinking Yourself
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
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Adventure Old One Liner Perspective Problem
Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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Lose Men People Thinking Unity Women 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
I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Desire Known Mom Myself Ordinary
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
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Admit Burden Dominance Honesty Men
There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.
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Children Control Evidence Harm Health Home Mother
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

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