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.
BETTY FRIEDANThere 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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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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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.
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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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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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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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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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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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