[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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 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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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
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Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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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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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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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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
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