Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
BETTY FRIEDANToday the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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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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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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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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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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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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