We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
BETTY FRIEDANIt is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.
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It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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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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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn’t mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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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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…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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