Editors Quote by Betty Friedan Download Open image “Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.” — Betty Friedan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editors Magazines Offended
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“Female readers, on the other hand, were unmoved by the book, one of them going so far as to give it the ultimate insult… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit. — Florence King Copy Share Image
In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll see how… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.” — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.' — Sarah Jessica Parker 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
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain Copy Share Image