Betty Friedan on adventure
Betty Friedan70 quotes“Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.”
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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.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan [Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan …women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan 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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