Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
BETTY FRIEDANToday the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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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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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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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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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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