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.
BETTY FRIEDANGetting older is an adventure, not a problem.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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.
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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.
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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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.
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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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