Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
BETTY FRIEDANWhy 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?
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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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 won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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 feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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