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.
BETTY FRIEDANMen 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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