I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
BETTY FRIEDANThere 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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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 need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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