Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
BETTY FRIEDANThe 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
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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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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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