You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
BETTY FRIEDANYou have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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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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