Quotes by Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

Believe

Feminist

Men

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.

Girl

Sex

Women

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

Good Woman

Passionate

Responsibility

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

Copying

Men

Sex

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.

Feminist

People

Years

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one’s full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.

Brain

Full Potential

Needs

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.

Community

Frustrated

Leader

Being Jewish, you didn’t get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn’t want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.

Reading

Sorority

Want

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.

Abortion

Feminist

Wish

Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing… Scientists predict that it will cause great snows which the world has not seen since the last ice age thousands of years ago.

Ice

Snow

Years

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Children

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Darkness

Desire

Details Of Life

Differences

Different

Discrimination

Diversity

Divorce

Dominance

Doors

Editors

Enemy

Energy

Equality

Feels

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Feminism

Feminist

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Full Potential

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Good Woman

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Hamburgers

Hiding

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Quotes by Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.

Being Jewish, you didn’t get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn’t want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.

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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