We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
BETTY FRIEDAN[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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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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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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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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 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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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 knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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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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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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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