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“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.”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
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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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“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
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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
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