When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
BETTY FRIEDANI’m my age and I feel glorious.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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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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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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