Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
BETTY FRIEDANIt is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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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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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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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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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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 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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While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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