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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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Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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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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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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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.
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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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