Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
BETTY FRIEDANThe feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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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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