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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
Betty Friedan
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Betty Friedan
Age: 85 †
Born: 1921
Born: February 4
Died: 2006
Died: February 6
Feminist
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Peoria
Illinois
Betty Naomi Goldstein
Bettye Naomi Goldstein
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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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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.
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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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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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[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
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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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The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
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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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Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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