Betty Friedan Quotes

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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  A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Sex, Women

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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  Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

  Betty Friedan

  Justice, Social Justice, Knows

  Betty Friedan (1998). “It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Selfish

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• A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Good Woman, Passionate

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  Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

  Betty Friedan

  Real, Women, Memorable

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• In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Art, Sex

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• Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

  Betty Friedan

  Adventure, Getting Older, Problem

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• It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. 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 Friedan

  Motivational, Strength, Freedom

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

  Betty Friedan

  Needs, Way, Old Ways

  Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.514, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, Being A Woman

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

  Betty Friedan

  Shining, Feminist, Kitchen

  "Feminist icon Betty Friedan dies aged 85" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Feminist, Revolution, States

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

  Betty Friedan

  Time Management, Cute Dream

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• Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

  Betty Friedan

  Thinking, Men, People

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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• Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

  Betty Friedan

  Adventure, Inspirational Birthday, Joy

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• We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

  Betty Friedan

  Family, Men, Political

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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?

  Betty Friedan

  Knows

  Betty Friedan (1998). “It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.

  Betty Friedan

  Abortion, Feminist, Wish

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• Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

  Betty Friedan

  Light, Darkness, Age

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Equality, Creative

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

  Betty Friedan

  Doors, Justice, Diversity

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Home

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, History

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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