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.
BETTY FRIEDANWomen, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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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 knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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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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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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