Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
BETTY FRIEDAN…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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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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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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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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