Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.

Betty Friedan's Popular Quotes

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

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

- 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…

- Betty Friedan

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

- Betty Friedan

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

- 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…

- Betty Friedan

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

- 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…

- Betty Friedan