Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
BETTY FRIEDANThis idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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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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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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