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.
BETTY FRIEDANAdvice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’
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Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can’t be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.
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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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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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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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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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