We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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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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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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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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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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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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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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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Each 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.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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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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I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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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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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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