I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
BETTY FRIEDANHe’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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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 to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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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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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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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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