Betty Friedan Quotes

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.

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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Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

John Otto

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So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

Matthew Lillard

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I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Loni Anderson

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Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

Jules Verne

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There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

Doug Stanhope

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The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw up in your mouth' kind of moment. And it's not, like, their fault, you know? It's not the writers' fault. But if was my world, there would be no written promos; there'd be no scripts.

Dean Ambrose

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I thought late-night was crowded... the format's repetitive.

Craig Kilborn

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If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Colin Greenwood

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I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Brian Ferneyhough

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If you stay present and don't look too far ahead - or in the rearview mirror - everything will work out.

Brock Osweiler

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If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.

Anohni

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My sister basically showed me how to be a person for many years of my life. I just didn't really fit anywhere, and my sister was always really comfortable in who she was.

Portia Doubleday

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