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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

Betty Friedan

I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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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.
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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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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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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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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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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