The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
BETTY FRIEDANThe feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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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 situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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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.
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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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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