Closing Quote by Betty Friedan Download Open image “Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.” — Betty Friedan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Closing Culture Diversity Doors Justice Protectiveness Social justice Sound
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I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ...… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
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Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex;… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves. — LeRoy Neiman 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
“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
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
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He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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I always ask two questions when we are closing in on a deal: What currency are we dealing in and how many people are… — Alan Pardew Copy Share Image
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image