186 Quotes by Betty Friedan

  • Author Betty Friedan
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    Women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps ... they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

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    Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves.

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    And in the last decade what had seemed normal and irreversible aging decline has, in fact, been reversed with changes in diet, exercise, lifestyle, and environment.

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    We seem just now to live in a period of human history when both the rate and/or manifestations of aging are undergoing marked and rapid changes.

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    The women's movement has for years been the scapegoat for the rage of threatened, insecure housewives who can no longer count on husbands for lifelong support.

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