Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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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 knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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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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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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I 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.
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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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