Getting older is an adventure, not a problem. Betty Friedan More Quotes by Betty Friedan More Quotes From Betty Friedan 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 males bears perfect Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute. Betty Friedan powerful men children 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 I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique. Betty Friedan unnecessary keys thinking 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 husband home children 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 equality women creative 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 divorce justice sex You can have it all, just not all at the same time. Betty Friedan cute-dream time-management By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value. Betty Friedan abortion feminist wish Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth. Betty Friedan light darkness age 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 realizing voice answers Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? Betty Friedan husband struggle children The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. Betty Friedan lost-youth women history 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 mother home children 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 sex commitment art I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy. Betty Friedan one-thing want 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 men years thinking 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 that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell. Betty Friedan target america thinking 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 women diversity enemy [Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man. Betty Friedan feminist men believe 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 taken jobs mean
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