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?
BETTY FRIEDANI’m my age and I feel glorious.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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