A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
BETTY FRIEDANProtectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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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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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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