Betty Friedan was a famous Activist from USA, who lived between February 4, 1921 and February 4, 2006. He/she became 85 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 10 quotes who is written / told by Betty, under the main topic Age.
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength"
"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves"
"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"
"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"
"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself"
"Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim"
"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!"
"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"
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive"
"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"
