To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
BETTY FRIEDANI 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.
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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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 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.
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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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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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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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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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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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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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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Neither 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.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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