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Women Quotes by Betty Friedan
- 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.
- 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…
- 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 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.'
- When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it…
- A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing…
- When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
- 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 she…
- I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And…
- We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people,…
- Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
- Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were…
- Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
- Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative…
- Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They…
- The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her…
- The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But…
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- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
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- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
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