"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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Source : Betty Friedan (2006). “Life So Far: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Betty Friedan

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“I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.”
“My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.”

Source : "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.
“I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.”
“I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.”

Source : "Exclusive: Eric Massa on 'Glenn Beck'". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. March 10, 2010.
“One Almighty is more than all mighties”
“Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.”

Source : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.164, Vintage
“The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.”

Source : Florence Littauer (1989). “Silver Boxes: The Encouragement Gift”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)”

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