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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.

Betty Friedan

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Adventure Old One Liner Perspective Problem
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
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
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
life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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Beyond Life Live Men Purpose Satisfaction True 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
It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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Fear Head Realization Scare Voice Women
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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Fact Growth Mental Health Name Problem Simplicity Women
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Admit Burden Dominance Honesty Men
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
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Age Feeling Glorious Myself
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Freedom Protest Speech Wrong
We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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Beginning Break Feminism Finding Home Mom Mystery People Stop Wife Women
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

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