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

Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Choice Complete Easy Live Yourself
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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Blame Divorce Increase Justice Marriage Percent Reason Role Sex
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Alive Burying Feminism History Lost Youth Millions Mystique Succeeded Women
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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Acceptance Age Expert Media Nurse Home Professional Public
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Adventure Old One Liner Perspective Problem
While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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Academic Brilliant College Graduation Love Myself Newspaper Quite
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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Beginning Confront Enjoyment Feminine Photograph Stop Women
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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Capacity Evolution Feminism Fight Human Quite Simplicity State Stop Women
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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Children Dreams Freedom Goals Guilty Herself Husband Reality Talk Woman
He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Insult Male
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
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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End Home Leaving Limitation Mom Responsibility Role Wife
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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Absence Age Darkness Deep Defined Light Youth
Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Children Home Love Name Problem Work
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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Children Family Happiness Home Husband Ignorance Longer Silence Voice Woman
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Hereditary Magazine Myself Offend Women Writing
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
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
This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
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Divorce Employment Equality Home Ideas Responsible Security Support Women Work World
[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Believe Female Feminist Liberty Life Man Suppressed
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Close Protection Sound Women
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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Acceptance Need Old Way Yourself
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”
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Editor Feminism Magazine Myself Realization Threatening
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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Bliss Fulfill Happiness Infinite Promise Strange
I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
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Book Change Different History Live Myself Orthodox Set Women Writing
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

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