I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? - Betty Friedan
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
- Betty Friedan
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. - Betty Friedan
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength. - Betty Friedan
Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wa… - Betty Friedan
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wa…
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. - Betty Friedan
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem. - Betty Friedan
Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never face… - Betty Friedan
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never face…
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. - Betty Friedan
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. B… - Betty Friedan
If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. B…
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