If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
BETTY FRIEDANNeither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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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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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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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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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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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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