Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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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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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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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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When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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