This 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.
BETTY FRIEDANWho knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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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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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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