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 FRIEDANWho knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
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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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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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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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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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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