Betty Friedan Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 4, 1921 - February 4, 2006

Topics

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I like to work fast.

Jerry Orbach

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If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

Robert Morley

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I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.

Matt Dillon

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There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

Michael Hayden

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I was looking at this picture of Brooke Shields at Studio 54 the other day. Everyone in the shot looks amazing because they have these black and white cameras with a flash. I think that's what photographers should go back to.

Suki Waterhouse

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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

Rob Zombie

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I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

Mary Steenburgen

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When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

Mary Frann

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I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.

Jason Wu

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I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Chester A. Arthur

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My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

Christopher Judge

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Donald Trump is the best debater on the debate stage.

Corey Lewandowski

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