Phrase by 'Betty Friedan'

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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.

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  Home , Men , Woman , Son


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

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  Yourself , Live , Become , Someone


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

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist


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.

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  Feel , Men , Suffering , Enemy


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.

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  World , Women , Saying , Meeting


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

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  Men , Women , Real , Enemy


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.

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  Man , Society , Woman , Sex


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

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  American , Women , Alive , Feminine


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

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  Man , Here , Victim , Enemy


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!

Author: Betty Friedan - American Activist
  People , Men , Women , Movies


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