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Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

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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
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Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.
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When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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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.
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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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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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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
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Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
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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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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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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
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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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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.
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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.
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Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes that challenge and use our human abilities. . . . In sum, our development does not necessarily end at any age. We can continue to develop into our eighties, even to our nineties.
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Aging will create the music of the coming century.
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
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