American culture Quote by Betty Friedan

““There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.””

Betty Friedan

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

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This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is…

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

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...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked…

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

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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if…

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

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“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.”

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“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a…

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The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed…

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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…

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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…

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Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

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