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

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

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. — Betty Friedan

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

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

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

I'm my age and I feel glorious. — Betty Friedan

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

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

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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

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

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

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

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. — Betty Friedan

Aging will create the music of the coming century. — Betty Friedan

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. — Betty Friedan

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

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

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

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf. — Liz Goldwyn

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

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

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

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

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

Probably one should never feel such gaiety or such despair. Better to operate on an even keep like Friedan and Gloria and the others. — Kate Millett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman. — Sandra Tsing Loh

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

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

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

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

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

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem. — Betty Friedan

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