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.
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
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I want to do more films - not just comedies, because I really want to show my range.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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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.
