A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
BETTY FRIEDANI love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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