It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
BETTY FRIEDANSome 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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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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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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