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“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
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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 it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
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“You can have it all, just not all at the same time.”
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“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination--tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
Wendy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Wendy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
221 books
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74 friends
106 books
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134 friends
119 books
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121 friends
61 books
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69 friends
35 books
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15 friends
14 books
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146 friends
3 books
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0 books
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145 friends
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