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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

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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 whe...more

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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced...more

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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

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A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of yea...more

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There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, w...more

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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

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American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … the fundamental human drive is not...more

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The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. ...more

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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

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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 labor...more

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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 c...more

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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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Why should anyone raise an eyebrow because a latter-day Einstein’s wife expects her husband to put aside that lifeless theory of relativity and help h...more

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It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is v...more