Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
BETTY FRIEDANJust as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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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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