A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
BETTY FRIEDANThe situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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If 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.
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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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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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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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