When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
BETTY FRIEDANIf 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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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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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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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 have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.
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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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It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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