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Category Archive: Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan Quote: “It is easier to live through…”

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

April 10, 2021 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “Man is not the enemy here…”

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

December 28, 2020 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “The feminine mystique has succeeded in…”

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

September 13, 2020 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “Men weren’t really the enemy – …”

Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

August 2, 2020 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “We need to see men and…”

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it’s hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

July 26, 2020 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “I was at a meeting two…”

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn’t have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it’s happening all over the world.

July 16, 2020 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “Aging is not lost youth but…”

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

June 3, 2020 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “A woman is handicapped by her…”

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.

December 24, 2019 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “Men are not the enemy, but…”

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.

August 24, 2019 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists

Betty Friedan Quote: “It is better for a woman…”

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

December 25, 2018 1921, American, Betty Friedan, February 4, Quotes by Activists
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