The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
BETTY FRIEDANWomen, 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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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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