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Betty Friedan Quotes: "Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?"

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?



Betty Friedan Quotes: "The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.




Betty Friedan Quotes: "Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves."

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.



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

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




Betty Friedan Quotes: "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 to lose but your vacuum cleaners."

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 to lose but your vacuum cleaners.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society."

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.




Betty Friedan Quotes: "Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth."

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity."

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained."

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself."

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "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 nourished without denying love?"

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 nourished without denying love?




Betty Friedan Quotes: "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 own."

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 own.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children."

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "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 no bears to kill."

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 no bears to kill.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows."

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women."

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



Betty Friedan Quotes: "There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home."

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "You can have it all, just not all at the same time."

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



Betty Friedan Quotes: "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, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"

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, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy."

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man."

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."

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



Betty Friedan Quotes: "We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'"

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'



Betty Friedan Quotes: "The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white."

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique."

Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Aging will create the music of the coming century."

Aging will create the music of the coming century.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "He's a male chauvinistic piglet."

He's a male chauvinistic piglet.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability."

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities."

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy."

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it."

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be."

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "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 has borne leave home."

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 has borne leave home.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous."

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need."

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not."

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class."

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that."

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that."

Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much"

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I'm my age and I feel glorious."

I'm my age and I feel glorious.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me."

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it."

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world."

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman."

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up."

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children."

Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children.



Betty Friedan Quotes: "I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't."

I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't.