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.
BETTY FRIEDANNeither 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.
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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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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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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.
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