Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
BETTY FRIEDANMen are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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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.
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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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It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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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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If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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