The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
BETTY FRIEDANAging will create the music of the coming century.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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I 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.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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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 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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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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