We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
BETTY FRIEDANTo protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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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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I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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