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.
BETTY FRIEDANWho 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?
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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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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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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