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?
BETTY FRIEDANProtectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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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.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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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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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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