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Feminism or the family? Carri...

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

Betty Friedan 133 quotes

Economic equity is an enormou...

Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.

Betty Friedan 133 quotes

Aging is not 'lost youth,' bu...

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

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It is easier to live through ...

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

Betty Friedan 133 quotes

I didn't want to be in a situa...

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

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I just decided that I didn't w...

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 133 quotes

While I had been, I guess, qui...

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

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It was the era that I later an...

It was the era that I later analyzed, the 'feminine mystique' era, [when] 'career woman' was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

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American women were frustrated...

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

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Whatever I wrote was heretical...

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

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I realized that what I was say...

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 trying to paint, what I then called the 'feminine mystique.'

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I loved my kids. And I loved m...

I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

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When [the] life span of Americ...

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

Betty Friedan 133 quotes

The situation of women and men...

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

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There is absolutely no evidenc...

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 133 quotes

This idea that the employment ...

This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

Betty Friedan 133 quotes

Chosen motherhood is the real ...

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 in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

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It is perhaps beside the point...

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.

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The only kind of work which pe...

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

Betty Friedan 133 quotes

Today the problem that has no ...

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

Betty Friedan 133 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....