Betty Friedan Quotes
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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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.
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I think Christina Aguilera is great; I would love to work with her.
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It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.
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People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.
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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.
