Betty Friedan quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

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

I'm my age and I feel glorious.

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

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

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

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

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

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

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

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

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

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

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

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

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

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

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

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

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

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.