Betty Friedan - Work Quotes

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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.

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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: all psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

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The new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model — in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

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To do the work that you are capable of doing is the mark of maturity.

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The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. 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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