Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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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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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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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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…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.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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