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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
Betty Friedan
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Betty Friedan
Age: 85 †
Born: 1921
Born: February 4
Died: 2006
Died: February 6
Feminist
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Psychologist
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Peoria
Illinois
Betty Naomi Goldstein
Bettye Naomi Goldstein
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The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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 suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.
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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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