Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
BETTY FRIEDANMost of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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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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We 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.
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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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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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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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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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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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