It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
BETTY FRIEDANI can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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