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've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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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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Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.
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We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.
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Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.
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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.
