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.
BETTY FRIEDAN[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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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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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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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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
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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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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 feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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