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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
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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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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.
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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.
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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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Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
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