Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
BETTY FRIEDANWe broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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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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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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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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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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