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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
I'm my age and I feel glorious.
He's a male chauvinistic piglet.
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
Aging will create the music of the coming century.
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.
Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.
You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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.
Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.
It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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.
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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.
I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.
