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

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Aging Lost New Opportunity Stage Strength Youth

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

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Enemy Fellow Here Man Victim

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

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Alive American American Women Burying Feminine Millions Mystique Succeeded Women

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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.

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Better Cannot Compete Dominance Empty He Her Home Husband Men Neighbors Own Smother Society Son Status Than Woman

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

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Become Complete Easier Else Live Someone Than Through Yourself

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

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Enemy Fellow Men Real Themselves Victims Women

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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.

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Bears Enemy Feel Fellow Inadequate Made Masculine Men Mystique Really Suffering Them Unnecessarily Victims Were

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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!

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Equal Forty-Five Hard Hepburn Men Men And Women Movies Need Partners People See Talk Think Tracy Women Years Years Ago

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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.

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Agreed Beijing Bunch Glad Happening Marching Meeting Over Passed Protest Saying See Signs Something Two Were Who Women World Years Years Ago

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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.

~Betty Friedan

Topics: Advance Compete Copying Either Handicapped Her Man Pattern Professions Refusing Sex Society Woman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: February 4th, 1921

Died: February 4th, 2006

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