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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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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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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
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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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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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