I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
BETTY FRIEDANWhen she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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