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Betty Friedan Quotes
«The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.»
Author: Betty Friedan
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appliance, appliances, feminine, freed, grandmother, housewife, illnesses, suburban
«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 husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.»
Author: Betty Friedan
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compete, dominance, Her husband, impersonally, neighbors, smother, smothered, smothering, smothers, status
«Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework /an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.»
Author: Betty Friedan
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devastate, devastated, devastating, homework, inability, reported, self-sustained, sustained
«The problem that has no name.»
Author: Betty Friedan
«Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.»
Author: Betty Friedan
«There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.»
Author: Betty Friedan
«A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.»
Author: Betty Friedan
«Don't get into the bra-burning, anti-man, politics-of-orgasm school.»
Author: Betty Friedan
«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 I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.»
Author: Betty Friedan