Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
BETTY FRIEDANIf 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.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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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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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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