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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.


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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.



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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.



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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.



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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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