Betty Friedan Quotes

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• Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
• The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far…
• Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
• Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to…
• It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
• The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the…
• You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
• He's a male chauvinistic piglet.
• The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
• The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into…
• The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.…
• The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
• 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…
• I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
• I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs…
• It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her…
• 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…
• We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
• Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
• If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

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