Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
BETTY FRIEDANIt is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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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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We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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