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Famous Betty Friedan Quotes
“I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.”
“I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.”
“Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.”
“The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.”
“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”
“We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.”
“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?”
“Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.”
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
“You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.”