This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
BETTY FRIEDANWe 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!
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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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 feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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