Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
BETTY FRIEDANBy 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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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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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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.
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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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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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I 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.”
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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