Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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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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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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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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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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 feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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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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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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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