Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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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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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
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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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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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