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.
BETTY FRIEDAN
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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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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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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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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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