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.
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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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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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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