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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
Betty Friedan
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Betty Friedan
Age: 85 †
Born: 1921
Born: February 4
Died: 2006
Died: February 6
Feminist
Journalist
Psychologist
Sociologist
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Peoria
Illinois
Betty Naomi Goldstein
Bettye Naomi Goldstein
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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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.
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...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
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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.
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He's a male chauvinistic piglet.
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Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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.
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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.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
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All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation of young women who don't identify with feminism - and then we have the biggest march ever of women in Washington. More people than had ever marched for anything - not only more women, but more people.
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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.
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.
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