I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
BETTY FRIEDANA 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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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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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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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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I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”
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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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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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This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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