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.
BETTY FRIEDANEach 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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