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.
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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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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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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to 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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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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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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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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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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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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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