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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: 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: Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Betty Friedan quotes: To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

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: I'm my age and I feel glorious.

I'm my age and I feel glorious.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

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

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

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: 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: Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

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: Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

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: Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

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

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