It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
BETTY FRIEDANWhen I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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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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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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Some 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.
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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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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.
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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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I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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