When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
BETTY FRIEDANWho knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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