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" Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. "
Age
Opportunity
Strength
" A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. "
Sex
Woman
Man
" It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. "
Society
Home
Husband
" It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. "
Become
Live
Through
" I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world. "
Meeting
See
Two
" Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. "
Fellow
Enemy
Man
" Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. "
Men
Enemy
Fellow
" Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. "
Men
Bears
Enemy
" The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. "
Alive
Women
American Women
" We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! "
Men
People
Think
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