You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
BETTY FRIEDANI 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.”
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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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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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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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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