Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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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We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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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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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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!
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I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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