Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
BETTY FRIEDANI realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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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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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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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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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
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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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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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