When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
BETTY FRIEDANIt 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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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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I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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