Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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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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