Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
BETTY FRIEDANI never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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