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.
BETTY FRIEDANWhy the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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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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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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