Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
BETTY FRIEDANYou can have it all, just not all at the same time.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of ‘family.
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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
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There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother’s health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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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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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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