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.
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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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
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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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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women’s intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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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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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
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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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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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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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