Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
BETTY FRIEDANNo woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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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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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
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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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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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