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.
BETTY FRIEDANI 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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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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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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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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