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.
BETTY FRIEDANA good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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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.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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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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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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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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…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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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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