No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
BETTY FRIEDANHe’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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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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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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I just decided that I didn’t want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn’t active enough for me.
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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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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 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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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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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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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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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.
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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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