This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
BETTY FRIEDANTo protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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