If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles … - Betty Friedan

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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

Betty Friedan

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

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

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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 wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.

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In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

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

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