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.
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 can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
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If 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.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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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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We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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