Betty Friedan Quotes

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.

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• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Faith
  • Authority
  • Stands

• You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Free
  • You
  • Artist

• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Theatre
  • Grandparents
  • Uncle

• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Punishment
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Publish

• Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Simple
  • Church
  • Trump

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Years

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Political
  • Abuse
  • Medical

• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Sports
  • Aggressive
  • Leads

• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Dangerous

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Time
  • True
  • House

• Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Wise

• There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Moments

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

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