Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your men. It’s not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
BETTY FRIEDANHe’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”
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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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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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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.
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