Betty Friedan Quotes - Page 3

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• I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

  Betty Friedan

  Satisfied, Barricades, Reserves

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• Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Dominance, Honest

  Interview with David Sheff, "Playboy", September 1992.

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• I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Husband, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Inspirational, Men, Self

  Betty Friedan (1998). “The Second Stage: With a New Introduction”, p.82, Harvard University Press

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• He's a male chauvinistic piglet.

  Betty Friedan

  Piglet, Males, Insult

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• [Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

  Betty Friedan

  Believe, Men, Feminist

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• Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

  Betty Friedan

  Motherhood, Diversity, Choices

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Energy, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

  Betty Friedan

  Black And White, Men, Boss

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

  Betty Friedan

  Want, One Thing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.

  Betty Friedan

  Taken, Media, Organization

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

  Betty Friedan

  Kids, House, Eras

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Growing Up, Mind, Suffering

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• Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

  Betty Friedan

  Editors, Magazines, Offended

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Details Of Life, Wife

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Agony, Fellowship, Want

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Acceptance

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Men, Copying

  Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.509, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, America, Promise

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

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• Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

  Betty Friedan

  Advice, Life Is, Offers

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• life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of 'family.

  Betty Friedan

  Religious, Men, Self

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• I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

  Betty Friedan

  Editors, Trying, Magazines

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• I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Real, Gun

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Mean, Home

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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