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.
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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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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 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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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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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It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
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