Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
BETTY FRIEDANI never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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…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.
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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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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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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