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.
BETTY FRIEDANA girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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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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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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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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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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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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