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.
BETTY FRIEDANThe feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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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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While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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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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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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