We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
BETTY FRIEDANI love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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