While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
BETTY FRIEDANHe’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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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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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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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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Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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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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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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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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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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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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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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