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.
BETTY FRIEDAN
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.
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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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 situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.
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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 feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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