"A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination."

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Source : BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

Betty Friedan

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“Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.”
“Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.”
“A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.”
“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
“War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade". Book by George Meade, 1913.
“I canâ€™t afford to hate anyone. I donâ€™t have that kind of time.”
“I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.”
“I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration.”

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