Quotes by Betty Friedan with sex

Betty Friedan

American feministisch writer

Lived from: 1921 - 2006

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 4 february 1921 Died: 4 february 2006

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• A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.

  The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name

  ― Betty Friedan
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• 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.

  ― Betty Friedan
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• 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.

  ― Betty Friedan
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• Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

  ― Betty Friedan
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Subjects in these quotes:

• discrimination
• contemptuous
• professions
• fulfilling
• compulsion
• marriages

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