The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
BETTY FRIEDANIt is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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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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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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