It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.
BETTY FRIEDANThe feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
More Betty Friedan Quotes
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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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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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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
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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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I’m my age and I feel glorious.
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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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When I was in high school, even in college, I didn’t have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
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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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