I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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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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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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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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