When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
BETTY FRIEDANJust as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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