It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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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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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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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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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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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 weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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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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