Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
BETTY FRIEDAN
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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