He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
BETTY FRIEDANA 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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.
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I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
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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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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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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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There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.
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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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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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