I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
BETTY FRIEDANHe’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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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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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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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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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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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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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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By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
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