Betty Friedan Quotes - Page 5

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• Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Kids, Technology

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

  Betty Friedan

  Reality, Too Much, Hiding

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• 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.

  Betty Friedan

  Reading, Sorority, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Pain

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan, Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name", 1963.

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• When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

  Betty Friedan

  Kids, Years, America

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• The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Desire, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Thinking, Quality

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• 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.

  Betty Friedan

  Brain, Full Potential, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

  Betty Friedan

  Dirty, Careers, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Men, Unusual

  betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”

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• When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.

  Betty Friedan

  Real, School, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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