When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s.… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.” — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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